Vaugn quoted Moo and that got me to thinking. Paul writes in Romans 3:20,
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...for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.
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What Law is this, the moral law or the Mosaic Law? If we take the narrow definition and limit this to the Mosaic Law then it would seem to exclude those who did not subscribe to the Mosaic Law. But if viewed through a wider lens, God's moral law is inherent in all men. Thus Paul is concluding that the moral law of God imparts the knowledge of right and wrong. The Decalogue codified God's Law for the Jews, but it didn't relegate God's moral Law into obsolescence.
Conclusion: all men have an intuitive knowledge of God's moral Law, therefore there is no excuse.