Roma 2:13

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Karena bukanlah orang yang mendengar hukum Taurat yang benar di hadapan Allah, tetapi orang yang melakukan hukum Tauratlah yang akan dibenarkan.

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Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Karena bukanlah orang yang mendengar hukum Taurat yang benar di hadapan Allah, tetapi orang yang melakukan hukum Tauratlah yang akan dibenarkan.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Karena bukannya orang yang mendengar bunyi Taurat itu benar kepada Allah, melainkan orang yang mengamalkan hukum Taurat itu akan dibenarkan.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For not: Romans 2:25, Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 5:1, Deuteronomy 6:3, Deuteronomy 30:12-14, Ezekiel 20:11, Ezekiel 33:30-33, Matthew 7:21-27, Luke 8:21, James 1:22-25, 1 John 2:29, 1 John 3:7

but the: Romans 3:20, Romans 3:23, Romans 10:5, Luke 10:25-29, Galatians 3:11, Galatians 3:12

justified: Romans 3:30, Romans 4:2-5, Psalms 143:2, Luke 18:14, Acts 13:39, Galatians 2:16, Galatians 5:4, James 2:21-25

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:11 - before Exodus 35:1 - do them 1 Kings 8:32 - justifying Psalms 25:10 - keep Jeremiah 11:6 - Hear John 7:19 - yet Acts 10:35 - in Romans 4:15 - where Galatians 3:19 - It was added James 4:11 - a doer

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For not the hearers of the law are just before God,.... The apostle here shows, that the Jews were justly condemned, notwithstanding their having and hearing of the law; since hearing without doing it, will never denominate persons righteous in the sight of God, however it might recommend them in the sight of men: regard seems to be had either to the first delivery of the law by Moses to the people of Israel, when he read it to them, and they hearkened to it, and promised obedience; or rather to the reading and hearing it every sabbath day; and may include a speculative knowledge of it, without a practical obedience to it; and which therefore must fall greatly short of entitling them to a justifying righteousness; since not these,

but the doers of the law, shall be justified; by whom are meant, not such who merely literally and externally fulfil the law, as they imagine; for the law is spiritual, and regards the inward as well as the outward man, and requires internal holiness, as well as external obedience; and the apostle is speaking of justification before God, who sees the heart, and not before men, who judge according to outward appearance: nor are such designed who are imperfect doers of the law; for the law requires a perfect obedience, and what is not perfect is not properly righteousness; nor does it, nor can it consider an imperfect righteousness as a perfect one; for it accuses of, pronounces guilty, curses, and condemns for every transgression of it. But such only can be intended, who are doers of it spiritually, internally, as well as externally, and that perfectly. Adam, in his state of innocence, was a perfect doer of the law; he sinning, and all his posterity in him, none of them are righteous, but all pass under a sentence of condemnation. The best of men, even believers in Christ, are not without sin in themselves; and when any of the saints are said to be perfect, it must be understood in a comparative sense, or as they are considered in Christ. There never was but one since Adam, and that is Christ, who has fulfilled, or could perfectly fulfil the law; the thing is impossible and impracticable for fallen man: hence these words must be understood either hypothetically, thus, not the hearers of the law, but if there were any perfect doers of it, they would be justified before God; or else of such persons who are considered in Christ, by whom the whole perfect righteousness of the law is fulfilled in them, and who may be reckoned as perfect doers of it in him, their substitute, surety, and representative.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For not the hearers ... - The same sentiment is implied in James 1:22; Matthew 7:21, Matthew 7:24; Luke 6:47. The apostle here doubtless designed to meet an objection of the Jews; to wit, that they had the Law, that they manifested great deference for it, that they heard it read with attention, and professed a willingness to yield themselves to it. To meet this, he states a very plain and obvious principle, that this was insufficient to justify them before God, unless they rendered actual obedience.

Are just - Are justified before God, or are personally holy. Or, in other words, simply hearing the Law is not meeting all its requirements, and making people holy. If they expected to be saved by the Law, it required something more than merely to hear it. It demanded perfect obedience.

But the doers of the law - They who comply entirely with its demands; or who yield to it perfect and perpetual obedience. This was the plain and obvious demand, not only of common sense, but of the Jewish Law itself; Deuteronomy 4:1; Leviticus 18:5; compare Romans 10:9.

Shall be justified - This expression is evidently synonymous with that in Leviticus 18:5, where it is said that “he shall live in them.” The meaning is, that it is a maxim or principle of the Law of God, that if a creature will keep it, and obey it entirely, he shall not be condemned, but shall be approved and live forever. This does not affirm that anyone ever has thus lived in this world, but it is an affirmation of a great general principle of law, that if a creature is justified by the Law, the obedience must be entire and perpetual. If such were the case, as there would be no ground of condemnation, man would be saved by the Law. If the Jews, therefore, expected to be saved by their Law, it must be, not by hearing the Law, nor by being called a Jew, but by perfect and unqualified obedience to all its requirements. This passage is designed, doubtless, to meet a very common and pernicious sentiment of the Jewish teachers, that all who became hearers and listeners to the Law would be saved. The inference from the passage is, that no man can be saved by his external privileges, or by an outward respectful deference to the truths and ordinances of religion.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 2:13. For not the hearers of the law, c.] It does not follow, because one people are favoured with a Divine revelation, that therefore they shall be saved while the others who have not had that revelation, shall finally perish: this is not God's procedure; where he has given a law-a Divine revelation, he requires obedience to that law; and only those who have been doers of that law-who have lived according to the light and privileges granted in that revelation, shall be justified-shall be finally acknowledged to be such as are fit for the kingdom of God.