Romans 2:14

"For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified"

Key Reflection

This verse emphasizes that merely hearing or knowing the law is not sufficient for righteousness; one must actually obey and live according to it to be justified in God's eyes.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 14. For when. The apostle, in Ro 2:13, had stated a general principle, that the doers of the law only can be justified, if justification is attempted by the law. In this verse and the next, he proceeds to show that the same principle is applicable to the heathen; that though they have not the written law of God, yet that they have sufficient knowledge of his will to take away every excuse for sin, and consequently that the course of reasoning by which he had come to the conclusion that they were guilty is well founded.

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