---
title: Romans 2:10
url: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/romans-2-10/
markdown: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/romans-2-10.md
type: verse
perspective: Protestant (historic Nicene) response to Jehovah's Witness teaching
reference: Romans 2:10
testament: NT
section: Letters
index: https://jw-apologetics.app/llms.txt
---

# Romans 2:10

## Text (Berean Standard Bible)

> but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, first for the Jew, then for the Greek.

## NWT Wording of the Key Phrase

- NWT (2013 revision): "but glory and honor and peace for everyone who works what is good, for the Jew first and also for the Greek"

## JW Usage

Watchtower commentary takes Romans 2:10 as the positive side of v9 — glory, honour, and peace for everyone who works what is good, Jew first and also Greek. The verse is read as describing the reward awaiting those who comply with Jehovah's requirements; works of obedience produce eschatological blessing.

## Protestant Usage

Like v7, v10 is a real promise to a class — the class of those who perfectly do good. Romans 3:10-12 will close that class: "no one does good, not even one." The promise is real and the standard is unreachable. Paul's resolution arrives in 3:21-26: a righteousness "apart from the law" that comes to "all those having faith." The same universal scope ("Jew first and also Greek") that bracketed condemnation in v9-10 brackets the salvation of 3:22 ("for all those having faith. For there is no distinction"). The condemnation is universal; the rescue is universal; the mechanism is faith.

## Arguments Using This Verse

- [Doers of the Law — Romans 2:13](https://jw-apologetics.app/arguments/romans2-13-doers-justified.md) — Paul's principle vs Paul's conclusion [Salvation]