Romans 2:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend them,

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 1:18-19 : 18 The Condemnation of the Unrighteous For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness, 19 because what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.
  • Rom 9:1 : 1 Israel’s Rejection Considered I am telling the truth in Christ(I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit–
  • 2 Cor 5:11 : 11 The Message of Reconciliation Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we are well known to God, and I hope we are well known to your consciences too.
  • Titus 1:15 : 15 All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
  • 1 John 3:19-21 : 19 And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence, 20 that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things. 21 Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,
  • 1 Tim 4:2 : 2 influenced by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared.
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 Paul Defends His Changed Plans For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God– not by human wisdom but by the grace of God– we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.
  • Gen 3:8-9 : 8 The Judgment Oracles of God at the Fall Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the orchard. 9 But the LORD God called to the man and said to him,“Where are you?” 10 The man replied,“I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.” 11 And the LORD God said,“Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
  • Gen 20:5 : 5 Did Abraham not say to me,‘She is my sister’? And she herself said,‘He is my brother.’ I have done this with a clear conscience and with innocent hands!”
  • Gen 42:21-22 : 21 They said to one another,“Surely we’re being punished because of our brother, because we saw how distressed he was when he cried to us for mercy, but we refused to listen. That is why this distress has come on us!” 22 Reuben said to them,“Didn’t I say to you,‘Don’t sin against the boy,’ but you wouldn’t listen? So now we must pay for shedding his blood!”
  • 1 Kgs 2:44 : 44 Then the king said to Shimei,“You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David. The LORD will punish you for what you did.
  • Job 27:6 : 6 I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.
  • Eccl 7:22 : 22 For you know in your own heart that you also have cursed others many times.
  • John 8:9 : 9 Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.
  • Acts 23:1 : 1 Paul looked directly at the council and said,“Brothers, I have lived my life with a clear conscience before God to this day.”
  • Acts 24:16 : 16 This is the reason I do my best to always have a clear conscience toward God and toward people.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Rom 2:12-14
    3 verses
    85%

    12For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

    13For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

    14For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

  • Rom 2:16-18
    3 verses
    77%

    16on the day when God will judge the secrets of human hearts, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.

    17The Condemnation of the Jew But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

    18and know his will and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law,

  • Rom 2:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    1The Condemnation of the Moralist Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge someone else. For on whatever grounds you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.

    2Now we know that God’s judgment is in accordance with truth against those who practice such things.

    3And do you think, whoever you are, when you judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape God’s judgment?

  • Rom 1:18-20
    3 verses
    73%

    18The Condemnation of the Unrighteous For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness,

    19because what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

    20For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes– his eternal power and divine nature– have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.

  • Rom 2:27
    72%

    27The physically uncircumcised man, by keeping the law, will judge you to be the transgressor of the law, even though you have the letter and circumcision!

  • Rom 3:18-21
    4 verses
    72%

    18“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

    19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

    20For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

    21But now apart from the law the righteousness of God(although it is attested by the law and the prophets) has been disclosed–

  • Rom 9:1
    72%

    1Israel’s Rejection Considered I am telling the truth in Christ(I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit–

  • Rom 3:9
    71%

    9The Condemnation of the World What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,

  • 1 Cor 10:29
    71%

    29I do not mean yours but the other person’s. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?

  • Heb 10:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15And the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us, for after saying,

    16“This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds,”

  • Rom 7:21-23
    3 verses
    71%

    21So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

    22For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

    23But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

  • 2 Cor 3:2
    71%

    2You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone,

  • Rom 4:15
    70%

    15For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.

  • Acts 24:16
    70%

    16This is the reason I do my best to always have a clear conscience toward God and toward people.

  • Rom 7:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said,“Do not covet.”

    8But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

  • Rom 1:24
    70%

    24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

  • Rom 8:1-3
    3 verses
    70%

    1The Believer’s Relationship to the Holy Spirit There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

    2For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

    3For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

  • Rom 7:5
    70%

    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

  • Gal 6:2
    70%

    2Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

  • Rom 1:32
    70%

    32Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.

  • Acts 15:8
    69%

    8And God, who knows the heart, has testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,

  • Rom 10:2
    69%

    2For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not in line with the truth.

  • Rom 7:14
    69%

    14For we know that the law is spiritual– but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

  • 2 Cor 1:12
    69%

    12Paul Defends His Changed Plans For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God– not by human wisdom but by the grace of God– we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.

  • Gal 6:13
    69%

    13For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh.

  • 2 Cor 4:2
    69%

    2But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God.

  • 1 Cor 14:25
    69%

    25The secrets of his heart are disclosed, and in this way he will fall down with his face to the ground and worship God, declaring,“God is really among you.”

  • Jas 2:12
    69%

    12Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom.

  • Titus 1:15
    69%

    15All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

  • Rom 7:16
    68%

    16But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good.

  • Jas 2:9
    68%

    9But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.

  • 2 Cor 5:11
    68%

    11The Message of Reconciliation Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we are well known to God, and I hope we are well known to your consciences too.

  • Mark 2:8
    68%

    8Now immediately, when Jesus realized in his spirit that they were contemplating such thoughts, he said to them,“Why are you thinking such things in your hearts?