Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Romans 2:13

“(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.”

Romans 2:13 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Romans 2:13, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Romans 2. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

11 For there is no respect of persons with God.

12 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:

15 Which 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;)

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • James 1:22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
  • 1 John 3:7Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
  • James 2:21Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
  • Romans 2:25For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
  • Galatians 2:16Knowing 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 n…
  • Luke 8:21And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.
  • Romans 10:5For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
  • 1 John 2:29If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
  • Galatians 3:11But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
  • Deuteronomy 5:1And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
  • Acts 13:39And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
  • Matthew 7:21Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
  • Romans 3:30Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
  • Psalms 143:2And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

More to meet God in Romans

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How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.