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11 For God shows no partiality.[a]

12 The Law and Conscience.[b] All those who have sinned outside the Law will perish outside the Law, and all who sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law. 13 For it is not those who hear the Law who are justified by God; rather, it is those who observe the Law who will be justified.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 2:11 God shows no partiality: a basic teaching of both the Old and the New Testament (see Deut 10:17).
  2. Romans 2:12 This passage is an important one for theology: God speaks to all human beings through the law of conscience; the authentic virtues and the interior resistances of the Gentiles bear witness to this fact.