Romans 2:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

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1 Corinthians 9:21
To them that are without law, as without law,(being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
Galatians 2:16-19
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. …
Romans 2:14-16
For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: …
Galatians 3:10
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Acts 17:30-31
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-16)

In the former chapter the apostle had represented the state of the Gentile world to be as bad and black as the Jews were ready enough to pronounce it. And now, designing to show that the state of the Jews was very bad too, and their sin in many respects more aggravated, to prepare his way he sets himself in this part of the chapter to show that God would proceed upon equal terms of justice with Je…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. For as many as have sinned--not “as many as have sinned at all,” but, “as many as are found in sin” at the judgment of the great day (as the whole context shows). without law--that is, without the advantage of a positive Revelation. shall also perish without law--exempt from the charge of rejecting or disregarding it. and as many as have sinned in the law--within the pale of a positive, writte…