Romans Chapter 2 verse 12 Holy Bible
For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;
read chapter 2 in ASV
All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who have done wrong under the law will have their punishment by the law;
read chapter 2 in BBE
For as many as have sinned without law shall perish also without law; and as many as have sinned under law shall be judged by law,
read chapter 2 in DARBY
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;
read chapter 2 in KJV
read chapter 2 in WBT
For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
read chapter 2 in WEB
for as many as without law did sin, without law also shall perish, and as many as did sin in law, through law shall be judged,
read chapter 2 in YLT
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - For as many as have sinned without Law (ἀνόμως) shall also perish without Law (ἀνόμως). Their perdition, if it ensues, will not be due to transgression of a code they had not, but to sin against such light as they had; if without knowledge of Law they sinned, without reference to Law their doom will he, And as many as have sinned in Law (or, under Law. Ἐν νόμῳ denotes the condition in which they were; cf. ἐν περιτομῇ and ἐν ὀκροβυστίᾳ, Romans 4:10) shall be judged by Law. The requirements of the Law which they knew they will be held accountable for transgressing - κριθήσονται here, instead of ἀπολοῦνται, because a definite standard of judgment is supposed (cf. Psalm 1.).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) Jew and Gentile alike will be judged, each by the method proper to his case; the Jew by the written Law against which he has sinned, the Gentile by the unwritten law of conscience against which he too has sinned. The mere hearing of the Law will bring no exemption to the Jew; and, on the other hand, the Gentile, who, at the dictates of conscience, acts as if he were subject to law, shall have the full benefit that law can give him. In fact, his conscience is to him a law. He undergoes precisely the same conflict of self- condemnation and self-acquittal as one who has a written law to refer to. All this will be done, this strict measure of justice will be applied, at the last great day of judgment.In the law.--Rather, in law. Here, as in the phrases which follow, "by law," "the hearers of law," "the doers of law," "the Gentiles which have not law," &c., the article is wrongly inserted by the Authorised version. Its absence shows that the Apostle Lad in mind, not the particular Mosaic law, but the abstraction of law. "Behind the concrete representation--the Mosaic law itself--St. Paul sees an imperious principle, an overwhelming presence, antagonistic to grace, to liberty, to spirit, and (in some aspects) even to life--abstract law, which, though the Mosaic ordinances are its most signal and complete embodiment, nevertheless is not exhausted therein, but exerts its crushing power over the conscience in diverse manifestations. The one, the concrete and special, is ? ?????; the other, the abstract and universal, is ?????" (Lightfoot).
