Romans 2:12-16

New King James Version

¹²For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law ¹³(for ^(A)not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified; ¹⁴for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, ¹⁵who show the ^(B)work of the law written in their hearts, their ^(C)conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them) ¹⁶^(D)in the day when God will judge the secrets of men ^(E)by Jesus Christ, ^(F)according to my gospel.

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Isaiah 24:1-6

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Impending Judgment on the Earth

24 Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste,
Distorts its surface
And scatters abroad its inhabitants.
²And it shall be:
As with the people, so with the ^(A)priest;
As with the servant, so with his master;
As with the maid, so with her mistress;
^(B)As with the buyer, so with the seller;
As with the lender, so with the borrower;
As with the creditor, so with the debtor.
³The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered,
For the Lord has spoken this word.

⁴The earth mourns and fades away,
The world languishes and fades away;
The ^(C)haughty^[a] people of the earth languish.
⁵^(D)The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants,
Because they have ^(E)transgressed the laws,
Changed the ordinance,
Broken the ^(F)everlasting covenant.
⁶Therefore ^(G)the curse has devoured the earth,
And those who dwell in it are ^[b]desolate.
Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are ^(H)burned,
And few men are left.