Romans 2:14–15

2:14 For whenever the Gentiles,26 who do not have the law, do by nature27 the things required by the law,28 these who do not have the law are a law to themselves. 2:15 They29 show that the work of the law is written30 in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend31 them,32

26	sn Gentile is a NT term for a non-Jew.
27	tn Some (e.g. C. E. B. Cranfield, Romans [ICC], 1:135–37) take the phrase φύσει (phusei, “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.
28	tn Grk “do by nature the things of the law.”
29	tn Grk “who.” The relative pronoun was converted to a personal pronoun and, because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
30	tn Grk “show the work of the law [to be] written,” with the words in brackets implied by the Greek construction.
31	tn Or “excuse.”
32	tn Grk “their conscience bearing witness and between the thoughts accusing or also defending one another.”