Romans 2:17

American Standard Version (1901)

But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God,

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  • Mic 3:11 : 11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.
  • Rom 2:23 : 23 thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonorest thou God?
  • John 5:45 : 45 Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, [even] Moses, on whom ye have set your hope.
  • John 7:19 : 19 Did not Moses give you the law, and [yet] none of you doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me?
  • John 8:33 : 33 They answered unto him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never yet been in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
  • John 8:41 : 41 Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, [even] God.
  • John 9:28-29 : 28 And they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are disciples of Moses. 29 We know that God hath spoken unto Moses: but as for this man, we know not whence he is.
  • 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 of men, but of God.
  • Rom 9:4-7 : 4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of God], and the promises; 5 whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. 6 But [it is] not as though the word of God hath come to nought. 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 shall thy seed be called.
  • Rom 9:32 : 32 Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;
  • 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 sinners of the Gentiles,
  • Eph 2:11 : 11 Wherefore remember, that once ye, 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 by the Spirit of God, and glory 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 thinketh to have 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; as touching the law, a Pharisee; 6 as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless. 7 Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.
  • Rev 2:9 : 9 I know thy tribulation, and thy poverty (but thou art rich), and the blasphemy of them that say they are Jews, and they art not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
  • Rev 3:1 : 1 And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and thou art dead.
  • Rev 3:9 : 9 Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of them that say they are Jews, and they are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
  • Zeph 3:11 : 11 In that day shalt thou not be put to shame for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me; for then I will take away out of the midst of thee thy proudly exulting ones, and thou shalt no more be haughty in my holy mountain.
  • Matt 3:9 : 9 and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
  • Matt 8:11-12 : 11 And I say unto you, that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven: 12 but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast forth into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
  • Luke 10:28 : 28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
  • Ps 135:4 : 4 For Jehovah hath chosen Jacob unto himself, [And] Israel for his own possession.
  • Isa 45:25 : 25 In Jehovah shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
  • Isa 48:1-2 : 1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Jehovah, 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 upon the God of Israel; Jehovah of hosts is his name):
  • Jer 7:4-9 : 4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, are these. 5 For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; 6 if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not 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 for evermore. 8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. 9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods that ye 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 ye may do all these abominations?

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    22thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou rob temples?

    23thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonorest thou God?

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

    25For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

    26If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?

    27and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who with the letter and circumcision art 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 of men, but of God.

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    18and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

    19and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

    20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;

  • Rom 2:13-16
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    13for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified:

    14(for when Gentiles that have not the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are the law unto themselves;

    15in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness therewith, and their thoughts one with another accusing or else excusing [them] );

    16in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ.

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    1Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judges another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same things.

    2And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against them that practise such things.

    3And reckonest thou this, O man, who judgest them that practise such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

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    31that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 10:17
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    17But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

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    14But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Cephas before [them] all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as do the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, how compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

    15We being Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

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

    17But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid.

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    16But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

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    17I have therefore my glorifying in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

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    13For not even they who receive circumcision do themselves keep the law; but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

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    7Do not they blaspheme the honorable name by which ye are called?

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    2For if Abraham was justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not toward God.

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    10but glory and honor and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek:

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    27Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.

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    9What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;

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    18Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

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    18glory not over the branches: but if thou gloriest, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee.

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

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    9but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

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    5circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

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    4do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

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    7But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

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    2For I bear them witness 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? is he not [the God] of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also:

  • Gal 4:21
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    21Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

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    7Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also are we.

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    9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, [even] that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:

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    39and by him every one that believeth is justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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    7For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?

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    9and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, Therefore will I give praise unto thee among the Gentiles, And sing unto thy name.

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    5but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

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    20And they, when they heard it, glorified God; and they said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of them that have believed; and they are all zealous for the law:

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    4who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of God], and the promises;