Romans 2:13-16

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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 ¹⁶ on the day when, according to my gospel, God through Christ Jesus judges the secret thoughts of all.^(B)