Romans 2:14
Good News Translation
The Gentiles do not have the Law; but whenever they do by instinct what the Law commands, they are their own law, even though they do not have the Law.

New Revised Standard Version
When Gentiles, who do not possess the law, do instinctively what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves.

Contemporary English Version
Some people naturally obey the Law's commands, even though they don't have the Law.

New American Bible
For when the Gentiles who do not have the law by nature observe the prescriptions of the law, they are a law for themselves even though they do not have the law.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those things that are of the law; these, having not the law, are a law to themselves.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those things that are of the law; these, having not the law, are a law to themselves.

which.

Romans 2:12 For whosoever have sinned without the law shall perish without the law: and whosoever have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law.

Romans 3:1,2 What advantage then hath the Jew: or what is the profit of circumcision? . . .

Deuteronomy 4:7 Neither is there any other nation so great, that hath gods so nigh them, as our God is present to all our petitions.

Psalm 147:19,20 Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments to Israel. . . .

Acts 14:16 Who in times past, suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

Acts 17:30 And God indeed having winked at the times of this ignorance, now declareth unto men that all should every where do penance.

Ephesians 2:12 That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise and without God in this world.

do by.

Romans 2:27 And shall not that which by nature is uncircumcision, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?

Romans 1:19,20 Because that which is known of God is manifest in them. For God hath manifested it unto them. . . .

1 Corinthians 11:14 Doth not even nature itself teach you that a man indeed, if he nourish his hair, it is a shame unto him?

Philippians 4:8 For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think on these things.

are a law.

Romans 2:12 For whosoever have sinned without the law shall perish without the law: and whosoever have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law.

Romans 1:32 Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death: and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.

Context
God's Righteous Judgment
13For not the hearers of the law are just before God: but the doers of the law shall be justified. 14For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those things that are of the law; these, having not the law, are a law to themselves. 15Who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness to them: and their thoughts between themselves accusing or also defending one another,…
Cross References
Acts 10:35
But in every nation, he that feareth him and worketh justice is acceptable to him.

Romans 1:19
Because that which is known of God is manifest in them. For God hath manifested it unto them.

Romans 2:15
Who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness to them: and their thoughts between themselves accusing or also defending one another,

1 Corinthians 9:21
To them that are under the law, as if I were under the law, (whereas myself was not under the law,) that I might gain them that were under the law. To them that were without the law, as if I were without the law, (whereas I was not without the law of God, but was in the law of Christ,) that I might gain them that were without the law.

Ephesians 2:3
In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:

Romans 2:13
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