Romans 2:14
Verse 14 of 29. The 2nd of 16 chapters in Romans, in The Letters of Paul.
10But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
11For there is no respect of persons with God.
12For 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.
14For 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:
15Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
16In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
17Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
18And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
Romans 2:14 in the World English Bible
(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,Read Romans 2:14 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Romans 2:14
Further to clear this (v. 14, 15), in a parenthesis, he evinces that the light of nature was to the Gentiles instead of a written law. He had said (v. 12) they had sinned without law, which looks like a contradiction; for where there is no law there is no transgression. But, says he, though they had not the written law (Ps. cxlvii. 20), they had that which was equivalent, not to the ceremonial, but to the moral law.
Read Matthew Henry on Romans 2:1–16: Equity of the Divine Government. (a. d. 58.)
Pray Romans 2:14 with someone reading it aloud.
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