Romans 2:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God,

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  • Mic 3:11 : 11 The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.
  • Rom 2:23 : 23 You who make your boast of the law, through breaking the law do you dishonor God?
  • 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, and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
  • Rom 9:4-7 : 4 Who are Israelites; to whom belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises; 5 Of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen. 6 Not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel: 7 Neither, because they are Abraham's descendants, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall your descendants be called.
  • Rom 9:32 : 32 Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that 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 who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
  • Eph 2:11 : 11 Therefore, remember that you being in times past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the 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 might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has reason to trust in the flesh, I more: 5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; 6 Regarding zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness in the law, blameless. 7 But what things were gain to me, those I have counted as loss for Christ.
  • Rev 2:9 : 9 I know your works, and tribulation, and poverty (but you are rich); and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
  • Rev 3:1 : 1 And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These things says he who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know your works, that you have a name that you live, and are dead.
  • Rev 3:9 : 9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, and are not, but do 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 shall not be ashamed for all your deeds, wherein you have transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of you those that rejoice in your pride, and you shall no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
  • Matt 3:9 : 9 And do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father: for I say to you, that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
  • Matt 8:11-12 : 11 And I say to you, that many will come from the east and west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. 12 But the children of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness: there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  • Luke 10:28 : 28 And he said to him, You have answered rightly: this do, and you shall live.
  • John 7:19 : 19 Did not Moses give you the law, 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 descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone: how can you say, You shall be made free?
  • John 8:41 : 41 You do the deeds of your father. Then they said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
  • John 9:28-29 : 28 Then they reviled him, and said, You are his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples. 29 We know that God spoke to Moses: as for this fellow, we do not know where he is from.
  • Ps 135:4 : 4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, and Israel for his special treasure.
  • Isa 45:25 : 25 In the LORD all the descendants of Israel shall be justified, and shall glory.
  • Isa 48:1-2 : 1 Listen to this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, and mention the God of Israel, but not in truth or in righteousness. 2 For they call themselves citizens of the holy city and rely on the God of Israel; the LORD of hosts is his name.
  • Jer 7:4-9 : 4 Do not trust in deceptive words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these. 5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your deeds; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor; 6 If you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your harm; 7 Then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever. 8 Behold, you trust in deceptive words that cannot profit. 9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know; 10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

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  • Rom 2:22-29
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    22You who say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?

    23You who make your boast of the law, through breaking the law do you dishonor God?

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

    25For circumcision truly profits if you keep the law: but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision.

    26Therefore if the uncircumcised keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

    27And shall not the uncircumcised which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who by the letter and circumcision transgress 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, and 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 more 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,

    20An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, who have the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

  • Rom 2:13-16
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    13For it is not the hearers of the law who are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

    14For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law to themselves:

    15Who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts alternately accusing or else excusing each other;)

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

  • Rom 2:1-3
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    1Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are that judges: for in what you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge do the same things.

    2But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who commit such things.

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

  • 1 Cor 1:31
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    31That, as it is written, He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.

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

  • Gal 2:14-17
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    14But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews?

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

    16Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by the faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

    17But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? God forbid.

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    16But now you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.

  • Rom 15:17
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    17Therefore I have reason to glory in Christ Jesus in what pertains to God.

  • Gal 6:13
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    13For neither do they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, so that they may boast in your flesh.

  • Jas 2:7
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    7Do they not blaspheme that worthy name by which you are called?

  • Rom 4:2
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    2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has reason to boast; but not before God.

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

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

  • Rom 3:9
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    9What then? Are we better than they? Not at all: for we have already charged both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

  • 2 Cor 11:18
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    18Since many boast according to the flesh, I will also boast.

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    18do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

  • 1 Cor 1:29
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    29That no flesh should glory in his presence.

  • Jas 2:9
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    9But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are 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 the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

  • Jas 2:4
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    4are you not then partial among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

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

  • Rom 10:2
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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 He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also,

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

  • 2 Cor 10:7
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    7Do you look on things after the outward appearance? If anyone trusts that he is Christ's, let him think this again in himself, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.

  • Phil 3:9
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    9And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is from 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 all who believe are 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 from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now 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, For this cause I will confess to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.

  • Rom 2:5
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    5But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

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    20And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said to him, You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who believe, and they are all zealous for the law:

  • Rom 9:4
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    4Who are Israelites; to whom belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises;