“Who will render to every man according to his deeds: to them who by patient continuance in well‐doing, seek for glory, and honor, and immortality; eternal life: but unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil; of the Jew first and also of the Gentile; but glory, honor, and peace to every man that worketh good; to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile; for there is no respect of persons with God. For as many as have sinned without law, shall also perish without law; and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; (for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. 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, which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another;) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.” Taken in its connection, the word _nature_, as used in this passage, evidently is used in its primary and chief meaning, to signify the constitutional powers or organization of mind. “The work of the law written in their hearts,” “their conscience also bearing witness;” these are what are referred to when it is said, “the Gentiles do _by nature_ the things contained in the law.” And it is _doing_ those things which secures “glory, honor and peace”—“to the Jew first, and _also to the Gentile_.” Another passage is Ephesians, ii., 1‐3: “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were _by nature_ the children of wrath, even as others.” In this passage the apostle is addressing those who in a succeeding verse are told, “remember that ye being in times past _Gentiles_ in the flesh:” this being so, they are those who, the same writer says, “do _by nature_ the things contained in the law.”