¹⁵ “See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, death and adversity.^(A)

³⁵ but in every people anyone who fears him and practices righteousness^[a] is acceptable to him.^(A)

¹³ For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in God’s sight but the doers of the law who will be justified.^{(A) 14} When gentiles, who do not possess the law, by nature do^[a] what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves. ¹⁵ They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, as their own conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts will accuse or perhaps excuse them