Romans 2:17

World English Bible (2000)

Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,

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  • Mic 3:11 : 11 Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, "Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us."
  • Rom 2:23 : 23 You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?
  • John 5:45 : 45 "Don't think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
  • John 7:19 : 19 Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"
  • John 8:33 : 33 They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free?'"
  • John 8:41 : 41 You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."
  • John 9:28-29 : 28 They insulted him and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don't know where he comes from."
  • Rom 2:28-29 : 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh; 29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
  • Rom 9:4-7 : 4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises; 5 of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen. 6 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel. 7 Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."
  • Rom 9:32 : 32 Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
  • 2 Cor 11:22 : 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.
  • Gal 2:15 : 15 "We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,
  • Eph 2:11 : 11 Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands);
  • Phil 3:3-7 : 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh; 4 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more: 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; 6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless. 7 However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.
  • Rev 2:9 : 9 "I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
  • Rev 3:1 : 1 "And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: "He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: "I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
  • Rev 3:9 : 9 Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
  • Zeph 3:11 : 11 In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out of the midst of you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be haughty in my holy mountain.
  • Matt 3:9 : 9 Don't think to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
  • Matt 8:11-12 : 11 I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven, 12 but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
  • Luke 10:28 : 28 He said to him, "You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live."
  • Ps 135:4 : 4 For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.
  • Isa 45:25 : 25 In Yahweh shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
  • Isa 48:1-2 : 1 "Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Yahweh, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness 2 (for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name):
  • Jer 7:4-9 : 4 Don't trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, are these. 5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; 6 if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt: 7 then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore. 8 Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit. 9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known, 10 and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these abominations?

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    22You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

    23You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?

    24For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written.

    25For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

    26If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

    27Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

    28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

    29but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

  • Rom 2:18-20
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    18and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

    19and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

    20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

  • Rom 2:13-16
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    13For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

    14(for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

    15in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

    16in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

  • Rom 2:1-3
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    1Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

    2We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

    3Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

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    31that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

  • 2 Cor 10:17
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    17But "he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

  • Gal 2:14-17
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    14But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

    15"We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

    16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

    17But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

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    16But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

  • Rom 15:17
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    17I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

  • Gal 6:13
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    13For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

  • Jas 2:7
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    7Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

  • Rom 4:2
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    2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

  • Rom 2:10
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    10But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

  • Rom 3:27
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    27Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

  • Rom 3:9
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    9What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

  • 2 Cor 11:18
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    18Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.

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    18don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.

  • 1 Cor 1:29
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    29that no flesh should boast before God.

  • Jas 2:9
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    9But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

  • Phil 3:5
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    5circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

  • Jas 2:4
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    4haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

  • Rom 3:7
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    7For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

  • Rom 10:2
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    2For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

  • Rom 3:29
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    29Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

  • Gal 4:21
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    21Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law?

  • 2 Cor 10:7
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    7Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's.

  • Phil 3:9
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    9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

  • Acts 13:39
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    39and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

  • 1 Cor 4:7
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    7For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

  • Rom 15:9
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    9and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name."

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    5But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

  • Acts 21:20
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    20They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

  • Rom 9:4
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    4who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;