14For 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:
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For 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;
Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. …
And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. …
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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…
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