Romans 2:13 Cross References

Romans 2:13

13: For it is not merely knowing the law that brings God's approval. Those who obey the law will be declared right in God's sight.

James 1:22

  1. And remember, it is a message to obey, not just to listen to. If you don't obey, you are only fooling yourself.
  2. For if you just listen and don't obey, it is like looking at your face in a mirror but doing nothing to improve your appearance.
  3. You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like.
  4. But if you keep looking steadily into God's perfect law--the law that sets you free--and if you do what it says and don't forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it.

1 John 3:7

  1. Dear children, don't let anyone deceive you about this: When people do what is right, it is because they are righteous, even as Christ is righteous.

Romans 2:25

  1. The Jewish ceremony of circumcision is worth something only if you obey God's law. But if you don't obey God's law, you are no better off than an uncircumcised Gentile.

Galatians 3:11

  1. Consequently, it is clear that no one can ever be right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, "It is through faith that a righteous person has life."
  2. How different from this way of faith is the way of law, which says, "If you wish to find life by obeying the law, you must obey all of its commands."

Galatians 2:16

  1. And yet we Jewish Christians know that we become right with God, not by doing what the law commands, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be accepted by God because of our faith in Christ--and not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be saved by obeying the law."

James 2:21

  1. Don't you remember that our ancestor Abraham was declared right with God because of what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
  2. You see, he was trusting God so much that he was willing to do whatever God told him to do. His faith was made complete by what he did--by his actions.
  3. And so it happened just as the Scriptures say: "Abraham believed God, so God declared him to be righteous." He was even called "the friend of God."
  4. So you see, we are made right with God by what we do, not by faith alone.
  5. Rahab the prostitute is another example of this. She was made right with God by her actions--when she hid those messengers and sent them safely away by a different road.

1 John 2:29

  1. Since we know that God is always right, we also know that all who do what is right are his children.

Romans 10:5

  1. For Moses wrote that the law's way of making a person right with God requires obedience to all of its commands.

Romans 3:30

  1. There is only one God, and there is only one way of being accepted by him. He makes people right with himself only by faith, whether they are Jews or Gentiles.

Luke 8:21

  1. Jesus replied, "My mother and my brothers are all those who hear the message of God and obey it."

Deuteronomy 30:12

  1. It is not up in heaven, so distant that you must ask, `Who will go to heaven and bring it down so we can hear and obey it?'
  2. It is not beyond the sea, so far away that you must ask, `Who will cross the sea to bring it to us so we can hear and obey it?'
  3. The message is very close at hand; it is on your lips and in your heart so that you can obey it.

Psalms 143:2

  1. Don't bring your servant to trial! Compared to you, no one is perfect.

Deuteronomy 5:1

  1. Moses called all the people of Israel together and said, "Listen carefully to all the laws and regulations I am giving you today. Learn them and be sure to obey them!

Galatians 5:4

  1. For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God's grace.

Matthew 7:21

  1. "Not all people who sound religious are really godly. They may refer to me as 'Lord,' but they still won't enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The decisive issue is whether they obey my Father in heaven.
  2. On judgment day many will tell me, 'Lord, Lord, we prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name.'
  3. But I will reply, 'I never knew you. Go away; the things you did were unauthorized. '
  4. "Anyone who listens to my teaching and obeys me is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock.
  5. Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won't collapse, because it is built on rock.

Ezekiel 20:11

  1. There I gave them my laws so they could live by keeping them. Yes, all those who keep them will live!

Romans 4:2

  1. Was it because of his good deeds that God accepted him? If so, he would have had something to boast about. But from God's point of view Abraham had no basis at all for pride.
  2. For the Scriptures tell us, "Abraham believed God, so God declared him to be righteous."
  3. When people work, their wages are not a gift. Workers earn what they receive.
  4. But people are declared righteous because of their faith, not because of their work.

Ezekiel 33:30

  1. "Son of man, your people are whispering behind your back. They talk about you in their houses and whisper about you at the doors, saying, `Come on, let's have some fun! Let's go hear the prophet tell us what the LORD is saying!'
  2. So they come pretending to be sincere and sit before you listening. But they have no intention of doing what I tell them. They express love with their mouths, but their hearts seek only after money.
  3. You are very entertaining to them, like someone who sings love songs with a beautiful voice or plays fine music on an instrument. They hear what you say, but they don't do it!
  4. But when all these terrible things happen to them--as they certainly will--then they will know a prophet has been among them."

Romans 3:20

  1. For no one can ever be made right in God's sight by doing what his law commands. For the more we know God's law, the clearer it becomes that we aren't obeying it.

Deuteronomy 4:1

  1. "And now, Israel, listen carefully to these laws and regulations that I am about to teach you. Obey them so that you may live, so you may enter and occupy the land the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.

Romans 3:23

  1. For all have sinned; all fall short of God's glorious standard.

Deuteronomy 6:3

  1. Listen closely, Israel, to everything I say. Be careful to obey. Then all will go well with you, and you will have many children in the land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, promised you.

Luke 18:14

  1. I tell you, this sinner, not the Pharisee, returned home justified before God. For the proud will be humbled, but the humble will be honored."

Acts 13:39

  1. Everyone who believes in him is freed from all guilt and declared right with God--something the Jewish law could never do.

Luke 10:25

  1. One day an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus by asking him this question: "Teacher, what must I do to receive eternal life?"
  2. Jesus replied, "What does the law of Moses say? How do you read it?"
  3. The man answered, "'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.' And, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"
  4. "Right!" Jesus told him. "Do this and you will live!"
  5. The man wanted to justify his actions, so he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"
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