12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.
14 For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things of the law, these, although they do not have the law, are a law to themselves,
15 who show the work of the law written on their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts one after another accusing or even defending them
16 on the day when God judges the secret things of people, according to my gospel, through Christ Jesus.
17 But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God
18 and know his will and approve the things that are superior, because you are instructed by the law,