Romans 2:23

Geneva Bible (1560)

Thou that gloriest in the Lawe, through breaking the Lawe, dishonourest thou God?

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  • Rom 2:17 : 17 Beholde, thou art called a Iewe, and restest in the Lawe, and gloriest in God,
  • Rom 3:2 : 2 Much euery maner of way: for chiefly, because vnto them were of credite committed the oracles of God.
  • Rom 9:4 : 4 Which are the Israelites, to whome perteineth the adoption, and the glory, and the Couenants, and the giuing of the Lawe, and the seruice of God, and the promises.
  • John 5:45 : 45 Doe not thinke that I will accuse you to my Father: there is one that accuseth you, euen Moses, in whom ye trust.
  • John 9:28-29 : 28 Then reuiled they him, and sayd, Be thou his disciple: we be Moses disciples. 29 We know that God spake with Moses: but this man we know not from whence he is.
  • Jas 1:22-27 : 22 And be ye doers of the word, and not hearers onely, deceiuing your owne selues. 23 For if any heare the woorde, and doe it not, he is like vnto a man, that beholdeth his naturall face in a glasse. 24 For when he hath considered himselfe, hee goeth his way, and forgetteth immediately what maner of one he was. 25 But who so looketh in the perfect Lawe of libertie, and continueth therein, hee not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the woorke, shalbe blessed in his deede. 26 If any man amog you seeme religious, and refraineth not his tongue, but deceiueth his owne heart, this mans religion is vaine. 27 Pure religion & vndefiled before God, euen the Father, is this, to visite the fatherlesse, and widdowes in their aduersitie, and to keepe himselfe vnspotted of the world.
  • Jas 4:16-17 : 16 But nowe ye reioyce in your boastings: all such reioycing is euill. 17 Therefore, to him that knoweth howe to doe well, and doeth it not, to him it is sinne.
  • Jer 8:8-9 : 8 Howe doe yee say, Wee are wise, and the Lawe of the Lorde is with vs? Loe, certeinly in vaine made hee it, the penne of the scribes is in vaine. 9 The wise men are ashamed: they are afraid and taken. loe, they haue reiected the word of the Lorde, and what wisdome is in them?
  • Matt 19:17-20 : 17 And he said vnto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, eue God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keepe ye commandemets. 18 He sayd to him, Which? And Iesus sayde, These, Thou shalt not kill: Thou shalt not commit adulterie: Thou shalt not steale: Thou shalt not beare false witnesse. 19 Honour thy father and mother: and thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe. 20 The yong man sayd vnto him, I haue obserued all these things from my youth: what lacke I yet?
  • Luke 10:26-29 : 26 And he saide vnto him, What is written in the Lawe? Howe readest thou? 27 And he answered, and saide, Thou shalt loue thy Lord God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy strength, and with all thy thought, and thy neighbour as thy selfe. 28 Then he said vnto him, Thou hast answered right: this doe, and thou shalt liue. 29 But he willing to iustifie himselfe, said vnto Iesus, Who is then my neighbour?
  • Luke 18:11 : 11 The Pharise stoode and prayed thus with himselfe, O God, I thanke thee that I am not as other men, extortioners, vniust, adulterers, or euen as this Publican.

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  • Rom 2:17-22
    6 verses
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    17Beholde, thou art called a Iewe, and restest in the Lawe, and gloriest in God,

    18And knowest his will, and triest the things that dissent from it, in that thou art instructed by the Lawe:

    19And persuadest thy selfe that thou art a guide of the blinde, a light of them which are in darkenesse,

    20An instructer of them which lacke discretion, a teacher of the vnlearned, which hast the forme of knowledge, & of the truth in ye Law.

    21Thou therefore, which teachest another, teachest thou not thy selfe? thou that preachest, A man should not steale, doest thou steale?

    22Thou that saist, A man should not commit adulterie, doest thou commit adulterie? thou that abhorrest idoles, committest thou sacrilege?

  • Rom 2:24-27
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    24For ye Name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

    25For circucision verely is profitable, if thou do the Lawe: but if thou be a transgressour of the Lawe, thy circumcision is made vncircumcision.

    26Therefore if the vncircumcision keepe the ordinances of the Lawe, shall not his vncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

    27And shall not vncircumcision which is by nature (if it keepe the Lawe) condemne thee which by the letter and circumcision art a transgressour of the Lawe?

  • Rom 2:1-3
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    1Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoeuer thou art that condemnest: for in that that thou condemnest another, thou condemnest thy selfe: for thou that condemnest, doest the same things.

    2But we know that the iudgement of God is according to trueth, against them which comit such things.

    3And thinkest thou this, O thou man, that condemnest them which doe such thinges, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the iudgement of God?

  • Jas 2:7-11
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    7Doe nor they blaspheme the worthie Name after which yee be named?

    8But if yee fulfill the royall Lawe according to the Scripture, which saith, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe, yee doe well.

    9But if yee regarde the persons, yee commit sinne, and are rebuked of the Lawe, as transgressours.

    10For whosoeuer shall keepe the whole Lawe, and yet faileth in one poynt, hee is guiltie of all.

    11For he that saide, Thou shalt not commit adulterie, saide also, Thou shalt not kill. Nowe though thou doest none adulterie, yet if thou killest, thou art a transgressour of the Lawe.

  • 7What shall we say then? Is the Lawe sinne? God forbid. Nay, I knewe not sinne, but by the Lawe: for I had not knowen lust, except the Lawe had sayd, Thou shalt not lust.

  • 13For they themselues which are circumcised keepe not the law, but desire to haue you circumcised, that they might reioyce in your flesh.

  • Mal 2:8-9
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    8But yee are gone out of the way: yee haue caused many to fall by the Lawe: yee haue broken the couenant of Leui, sayeth the Lord of hostes.

    9Therefore haue I also made you to be despised, and vile before all the people, because yee kept not my wayes, but haue beene partiall in the Lawe.

  • 21Tell me, ye that will be vnder the Law, doe ye not heare the Lawe?

  • 16But nowe ye reioyce in your boastings: all such reioycing is euill.

  • 8Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast polluted my Sabbaths.

  • Rom 2:12-14
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    12For as many as haue sinned without the Lawe, shall perish also without the Lawe: and as many as haue sinned in the Lawe, shall be iudged by the Lawe,

    13(For the hearers of the Lawe are not righteous before God: but the doers of the Lawe shalbe iustified.

    14For when the Gentiles which haue not the Lawe, doe by nature, the things conteined in the Lawe, they hauing not the Lawe, are a Lawe vnto themselues,

  • 7For if the veritie of God hath more abounded through my lye vnto his glorie, why am I yet condemned as a sinner?

  • 17But let him that reioyceth, reioyce in the Lorde.

  • 20Therefore by the woorkes of the Lawe shall no flesh be iustified in his sight: for by the Lawe commeth the knowledge of sinne.

  • 7For who separateth thee? And what hast thou, that thou hast not receiued? If thou hast receiued it, why reioycest thou, as though thou haddest not receiued it?

  • Gal 2:17-18
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    17If then while we seeke to be made righteous by Christ, we our selues are found sinners, is Christ therefore the minister of sinne? God forbid.

    18For if I build againe the things that I haue destroyed, I make my selfe a trespasser.

  • 31That, according as it is written, Hee that reioyceth, let him reioyce in the Lord.

  • 27Where is then the reioycing? It is excluded. By what Lawe? of woorkes? Nay: but by the Lawe of faith.

  • 12And the Lawe is not of faith: but the man that shall doe those things, shall liue in them.

  • 4Whosoeuer committeth sinne, transgresseth also the Law: for sinne is the transgression of the Lawe.

  • 17If any man destroy the Temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the Temple of God is holy, which ye are.

  • 15What then? shall we sinne, because we are not vnder the Law, but vnder grace? God forbid.

  • 6Your reioycing is not good: knowe ye not that a litle leauen, leaueneth ye whole lumpe?

  • 2And ye are puffed vp and haue not rather sorowed, that he which hath done this deede, might be put from among you.

  • 15For the Lawe causeth wrath: for where no Lawe is, there is no transgression.

  • 10For as many as are of the workes of the Lawe, are vnder the curse: for it is written, Cursed is euery man that continueth not in all things, which are written in the booke of the Law, to doe them.

  • 6Though hee honour not his father, or his mother, shalbe free: thus haue ye made the commaundement of God of no aucthoritie by your tradition.

  • 21Is the Lawe then against the promises of God? God forbid: For if there had bene a Lawe giuen which coulde haue giuen life, surely righteousnes should haue bene by the Lawe.

  • 31Doe we then make the Lawe of none effect through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the Lawe.

  • 4Ye are abolished from Christ: whosoeuer are iustified by the Law, ye are fallen from grace.

  • 29That no flesh shoulde reioyce in his presence.

  • 3Should men holde their peace at thy lyes? & when thou mockest others, shall none make thee ashamed?