Thank you for the question.
I always answer a scripture QUESTiON., if i see it in a post.
Sometimes i miss them, as i have a lot of posts to reply to each day.
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""""""""Rom 2:13 "for it is not the hearers of the Law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the Law who will be justified."""""""
This verse, you noticed, says that doing something is the way to be Justified before God.
The full quote is in Rom 2:13-16 which makes it clear that the justification is in the context of future Gospel Judgment (as vs 16 explicitly states, as has been quoted repeatedly on this thread - and ignored)
Justification is a gospel concept.
Rom 2:
13 for
it is not the hearers of the Law
who are righteous before God,
but the doers of the Law who will be justified. 14 For when Gentiles who do not have the Law instinctively perform the
requirements of the Law, these, though not having the Law, are a law to themselves, 15 in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, 16 on the day
when, according to my gospel,
God will judge the secrets of mankind
through Christ Jesus .
It is the same context for justification that we see in James 2 --
James 2: 21 Was our father Abraham not
justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that
faith was working with his works, and as a result of the works,
faith was perfected; 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God. 24
You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
Bible details affirmed by Christ in Matt 7
21 “
Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven,
but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven
will enter. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; leave Me, you who practice lawlessness.’
24 “Therefore,
everyone who hears these words of Mine, and acts on them, will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and
yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. 26 And
everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man
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These are Bible details that do not vanish no matter how much vitriol or ad hominem name-calling one might wish to use to dismiss them.