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# Connecting Statement:
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Paul continues to let the reader know that perfect obedience to God's law is required even for those who never had God's law.
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# For
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Verses 14 and 15 interrupt Paul's main argument to give the reader extra information. If you have a way to mark an interruption like this in your language, you can use it here.
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# it is not the hearers of the law
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Here "the law" refers to the law of Moses. AT: "it is not those who only hear the law of Moses" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# who are righteous before God
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"whom God considers righteous"
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# but it is the doers of the law
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"but it is those who obey the law of Moses"
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# who will be justified
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You can translate this in an active form. AT: "whom God will accept" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# Gentiles, who do not have the law ... are a law to themselves
The phrase "law to themselves" is an idiom that means that these people naturally obey God's laws. AT: "have God's laws already inside them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
# they do not have the law
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Here "the law" refers to the law of Moses." AT: "they do not actually have the laws that God gave to Moses" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
# translationWords
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/lawofmoses]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/righteous]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/justify]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/gentile]]