Romans 2:12
10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
- KJV
- For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
- WEB
- For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
- ASV
- For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;
- DARBY
- For as many as have sinned without law shall perish also without law; and as many as have sinned under law shall be judged by law,
- BLB
- For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law; and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law,
- ÅB
- Alle som syndet uten loven, skal også gå fortapt uten loven, og alle som syndet under loven, skal dømmes ved loven;
- OTB
- Alle som har syndet uten Loven vil også møte ødeleggelse uten Loven, og alle som har syndet under Loven vil bli dømt av Loven.
- B1930
- alle som syndet uten loven, skal også gå fortapt uten loven, og alle som syndet under loven, skal dømmes ved loven;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 9:21
To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
Read in contextGalatians 3:10
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Read in contextRomans 2:14–16
For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
Read in contextGalatians 2:16–19
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Read in contextActs 17:30–31
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
Read in contextRomans 7:7–11
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Read in contextRomans 8:3
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Read in contextRomans 1:32
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
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