Romans 2:14

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.

De 4:7; Ps 147:19,20; Ac 14:16; Ac 17:30; Ro 1:19,20; Ro 1:32; Ro 2:12; Ro 2:27; Ro 3:1,2; 1Co 11:14; Eph 2:12; Php 4:8

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.”