<p>2:13&nbsp;<i>For not the hearers of the law are just before God</i>- there would have been a great tendency in the first century as in our own to think that regular attendance at a place of worship and simply hearing God's law read was enough for salvation.</p><p><i>But the doers of the law shall be justified</i>- Yet Paul elsewhere teaches that no works can bring about justification, it is not of works but of faith in God's grace. I've observed several times in these notes so far in Romans that Paul tends to use the idea of 'doing' with reference to mental attitudes rather than deeds. Or it may be that Paul is here quoting a rabbinic maxim, and agreeing with it only so far- to demonstrate that even passive religionists are all the same liable to a very real condemnation.<br />Mt. 7:21 = Rom. 2:13. Paul saw the &quot;Lord, Lord&quot; people of the parable as the Jews of the first century who initially responded enthusiastically to the Gospel.</p>