Romans 2:13

2:13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous. 1 

Romans 6:21

6:21 So what benefit 2  did you then reap 3  from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

Romans 15:21

15:21 but as it is written: “Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.” 4 

1 tn The Greek sentence expresses this contrast more succinctly than is possible in English. Grk “For not the hearers of the law are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.”

2 tn Grk “fruit.”

3 tn Grk “have,” in a tense emphasizing their customary condition in the past.

4 sn A quotation from Isa 52:15.