Romans 2:23

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Rom 2:17 : 17 But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God,
  • Rom 3:2 : 2 Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.
  • Rom 9:4 : 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;
  • 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 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.
  • Jas 1:22-27 : 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. 23 For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror: 24 for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But he that looketh into the perfect law, the [law] of liberty, and [so] continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing. 26 If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
  • Jas 4:16-17 : 16 But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil. 17 To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
  • Jer 8:8-9 : 8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes hath wrought falsely. 9 The wise men are put to shame, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of Jehovah; and what manner of wisdom is in them?
  • Matt 19:17-20 : 17 And he said unto him, Why askest thou me concerning that which is good? One there is who is good: but if thou wouldest enter into life, keep the commandments. 18 He saith unto him, Which? And Jesus said, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, 19 Honor thy father and mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I observed: what lack I yet?
  • Luke 10:26-29 : 26 And he said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? 27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself. 28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live. 29 But he, desiring to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbor?
  • Luke 18:11 : 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 2:17-22
    6 verses
    83%

    17But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God,

    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;

    21thou therefore that teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

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

  • Rom 2:24-27
    4 verses
    81%

    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?

  • Rom 2:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    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?

  • Jas 2:7-11
    5 verses
    74%

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

    8Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:

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

    10For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one [point], he is become guilty of all.

    11For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

  • Rom 7:7
    71%

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:

  • Gal 6:13
    71%

    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.

  • Mal 2:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8But ye are turned aside out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.

    9Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.

  • Gal 4:21
    71%

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

  • Jas 4:16
    70%

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

  • Ezek 22:8
    70%

    8Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.

  • Rom 2:12-14
    3 verses
    70%

    12For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

    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;

  • Rom 3:7
    69%

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

  • 2 Cor 10:17
    69%

    17But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

  • Rom 3:20
    69%

    20because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law [cometh] the knowledge of sin.

  • 1 Cor 4:7
    69%

    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?

  • Gal 2:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

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

    18For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.

  • 1 Cor 1:31
    69%

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

  • Rom 3:27
    69%

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

  • Gal 3:12
    69%

    12and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them.

  • 1 John 3:4
    68%

    4Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
    68%

    17If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

  • Rom 6:15
    68%

    15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.

  • 1 Cor 5:6
    68%

    6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

  • 1 Cor 5:2
    68%

    2And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.

  • Rom 4:15
    68%

    15for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

  • Gal 3:10
    68%

    10For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.

  • Matt 15:6
    68%

    6he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition.

  • Gal 3:21
    68%

    21Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could make alive, verily righteousness would have been of the law.

  • Rom 3:31
    68%

    31Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.

  • Gal 5:4
    68%

    4Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.

  • 1 Cor 1:29
    68%

    29that no flesh should glory before God.

  • Job 11:3
    67%

    3Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?