^2:14For 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.

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Footnotes

26 Gentile is a NT term for a non-Jew.
27 Some (e.g. C. E. B. Cranfield, Romans [], 1:) 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 Grk “do by nature the things of the law.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

(Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

So, when Gentiles, who do not by nature have the law, do what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law.

NLTNew Living Translation

Even Gentiles, who do not have God’s written law, show that they know his law when they instinctively obey it, even without having heard it.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things of the law, these, although they do not have the law, are a law to themselves,

KJV 1900King James Version

For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

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