Romans 2:13

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For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be justified.

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  • Jas 1:22-25 : 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres—not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—this person will be blessed in what he does.
  • Rom 2:25 : 25 Circumcision indeed has value if you obey the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
  • 1 John 3:7 : 7 Little children, let no one lead you astray. The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.
  • Jas 2:21-25 : 21 Was not our father Abraham justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that his faith was working together with his works, and by works his faith was made perfect. 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, 'Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,' and he was called a friend of God. 24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 25 In the same way, was not Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another route?
  • 1 John 2:29 : 29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
  • Gal 2:16 : 16 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. So we also have believed in Christ Jesus in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
  • Gal 3:11-12 : 11 Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, 'The righteous will live by faith.' 12 The law is not based on faith; instead, it says, 'The person who does these things will live by them.'
  • Rom 3:30 : 30 Since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through the same faith.
  • Rom 10:5 : 5 For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.”
  • Rom 4:2-5 : 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about—but not before God. 3 What does the Scripture say? 'Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.' 4 Now to the one who works, wages are not counted as a gift but as an obligation. 5 But to the one who does not work but believes in the one who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Rom 3:23 : 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
  • Gal 5:4 : 4 You who are justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
  • Deut 4:1 : 1 Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and judgments that I am teaching you to observe, so that you may live and enter to take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is giving to you.
  • Deut 5:1 : 1 Moses called all Israel together and said to them, "Listen, Israel, to the statutes and judgments that I am speaking to you today. Learn them and carefully follow them."
  • Deut 6:3 : 3 Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey, so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in the land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has promised you.
  • Deut 30:12-14 : 12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will go up to heaven for us to bring it to us so we may hear it and do it?’ 13 Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will cross the sea for us and bring it to us so that we may hear it and do it?’ 14 No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so that you can do it.
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before you.
  • Ezek 20:11 : 11 I gave them my statutes and made known to them my ordinances, by which a person who obeys them will live.
  • Ezek 33:30-33 : 30 As for you, son of man, the people of your nation are talking about you near the walls and at the doorways of their houses. They are saying to one another, each to their brother, 'Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD.' 31 They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. With their mouths they express love, but their hearts pursue unjust gain. 32 Indeed, to them you are like someone who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and plays the instrument well. They listen to your words, but they do not put them into practice. 33 When it happens—and behold, it will happen—they will know that a prophet was among them.
  • Matt 7:21-27 : 21 Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and cast out demons in Your name, and perform many miracles in Your name?' 23 Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.' 24 Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 The rain came down, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and struck against that house, and it collapsed with a great crash.
  • Luke 8:21 : 21 But He replied, "My mother and brothers are those who hear God’s word and put it into practice."
  • Luke 10:25-29 : 25 And behold, an expert in the law stood up to test Him, saying, 'Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?' 26 He asked him, 'What is written in the Law? How do you read it?' 27 The man answered, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and love your neighbor as yourself.' 28 Jesus said to him, 'You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.' 29 But wishing to justify himself, he asked Jesus, 'And who is my neighbor?'
  • Luke 18:14 : 14 'I tell you that this man went home justified before God rather than the other. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.'
  • Acts 13:39 : 39 Through Him, everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.

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    22But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

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    26He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

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    2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about—but not before God.

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