Romans 2:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;

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  • Rom 2:12 : 12 All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who have done wrong under the law will have their punishment by the law;
  • Ps 147:19-20 : 19 He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions. 20 He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.
  • Acts 17:30 : 30 Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart:
  • Eph 2:12 : 12 That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.
  • Phil 4:8 : 8 For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.
  • Deut 4:7 : 7 For what great nation has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is, whenever we are turned to him in prayer?
  • Rom 1:19-20 : 19 Because the knowledge of God may be seen in them, God having made it clear to them. 20 For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:
  • Rom 1:32 : 32 Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.
  • Acts 10:35 : 35 But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.
  • Acts 14:16 : 16 Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.
  • Rom 2:27 : 27 And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.
  • Rom 3:1-2 : 1 How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision? 2 Much in every way: first of all because the words of God were given to them.
  • 1 Cor 11:14 : 14 Does it not seem natural to you that if a man has long hair, it is a cause of shame to him?

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    15 Because the work of the law is seen in their hearts, their sense of right and wrong giving witness to it, while their minds are at one time judging them and at another giving them approval;

  • Rom 2:12-13
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    12 All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who have done wrong under the law will have their punishment by the law;

    13 For it is not the hearers of the law who will be judged as having righteousness before God, but only the doers:

  • Rom 2:26-28
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    26 If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?

    27 And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.

    28 The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:

  • Rom 4:15
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    15 For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

  • Rom 9:30-31
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    30 What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

    31 But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.

  • 1 Cor 9:21
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    21 To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law.

  • Gal 3:10-12
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    10 For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.

    11 Now that no man gets righteousness by the law in the eyes of God, is clear; because, The upright will be living by faith.

    12 And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them.

  • Gal 2:15-16
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    15 We being Jews by birth, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

    16 Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.

  • Rom 3:20-21
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    20 Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

    21 But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets;

  • Rom 7:7-8
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    7 What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

    8 But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.

  • Gal 5:14
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    14 For all the law is made complete in one word, even in this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

  • Rom 2:1-3
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    1 So you have no reason, whoever you are, for judging: for in judging another you are judging yourself, for you do the same things.

    2 And we are conscious that God is a true judge against those who do such things.

    3 But you who are judging another for doing what you do yourself, are you hoping that God's decision will not take effect against you?

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    14 For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.

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    9 What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;

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    4 So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.

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    3 Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.

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    13 Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.

  • 1 Tim 1:9
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    9 With the knowledge that the law is made, not for the upright man, but for those who have no respect for law and order, for evil men and sinners, for the unholy and those who have no religion, for those who put their fathers or mothers to death, for takers of life,

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    13 Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken.

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    18 But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

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    18 And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law,

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    21 So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.

    22 In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,

    23 But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.

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    2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

  • Rom 3:28
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    28 For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law.

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    12 Let your words and your acts be those of men who are to be judged by the law which makes free.

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    16 But, if I do that which I have no mind to do, I am in agreement with the law that the law is good.

  • Rom 1:19-20
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    19 Because the knowledge of God may be seen in them, God having made it clear to them.

    20 For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:

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    8 But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well:

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    14 For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.

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    5 Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

  • Rom 10:5
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    5 For Moses says that the man who does the righteousness which is of the law will get life by it.

  • Rom 7:5
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    5 For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

  • Rom 1:32
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    32 Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.

  • Eph 4:17
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    17 This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

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    19 For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

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    10 Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.