Rom 2:14 | NETfull | STEP | For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

Romans 2:14

14 For whenever the Gentiles, ^{▼▼ Gentile is a NT term for a non-Jew.} who do not have the law, do by nature ^{▼▼ Some (e.g. C. E. B. Cranfield, Romans [ICC], 1:135–37) take the phrase φύσει (fusei, “by nature”) to go with the preceding “do not have the law,” thus: “the Gentiles who do not have the law by nature,” that is, by virtue of not being born Jewish.} the things required by the law, ^{▼▼ Grk “do by nature the things of the law.”} these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.