Romans 2:12

12 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.

Romans 2:12 in Other Translations

KJV
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;
ESV
12 For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
NLT
12 When the Gentiles sin, they will be destroyed, even though they never had God’s written law. And the Jews, who do have God’s law, will be judged by that law when they fail to obey it.
MSG
12 If you sin without knowing what you're doing, God takes that into account. But if you sin knowing full well what you're doing, that's a different story entirely.
CSB
12 All those who sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all those who sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

Romans 2:12 In-Context

10 but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
11 For God does not show favoritism.
12 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.
13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.
14 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law.

Cross References 1

  • 1. Romans 3:19; Romans 6:14; 1 Corinthians 9:20,21; Galatians 4:21; Galatians 5:18; S Romans 7:4
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