Discovery BoxRomans 2:14 
Context2:14 For whenever the Gentiles, 1 who do not have the law, do by nature 2 the things required by the law, 3 these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.
Romans 12:8
Context12:8 if it is exhortation, he must exhort; if it is contributing, he must do so with sincerity; if it is leadership, he must do so with diligence; if it is showing mercy, he must do so with cheerfulness.
1 sn Gentile is a NT term for a non-Jew.
2 tn Some (e.g. C. E. B. Cranfield, Romans [ICC], 1:135-37) take the phrase φύσει (fusei, “by nature”) to go with the preceding “do not have the law,” thus: “the Gentiles who do not have the law by nature,” that is, by virtue of not being born Jewish.
3 tn Grk “do by nature the things of the law.”
