Romans 2:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Rom 2:17 : 17 Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God,
  • Rom 3:2 : 2 Much in every way: chiefly, because to them were entrusted the oracles of God.
  • Rom 9:4 : 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;
  • Jas 1:22-27 : 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 For he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does. 26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is useless. 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
  • Jas 4:16-17 : 16 But now you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil. 17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
  • Jer 8:8-9 : 8 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Behold, certainly in vain he made it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. 9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
  • Matt 19:17-20 : 17 And he said to him, Why do you call me good? There is none good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments. 18 He said to him, Which ones? Jesus said, You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, 19 Honor your father and your mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 20 The young man said to him, All these things I have kept from my youth up. What do I still lack?
  • Luke 10:26-29 : 26 He said to him, What is written in the law? How do you read it? 27 And he answered, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself. 28 And he said to him, You have answered rightly: this do, and you shall live. 29 But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?
  • Luke 18:11 : 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank you that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 2:17-22
    6 verses
    83%

    17Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God,

    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.

    21You therefore who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?

    22You who say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?

  • Rom 2:24-27
    4 verses
    81%

    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?

  • Rom 2:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    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?

  • Jas 2:7-11
    5 verses
    74%

    7Do they not blaspheme that worthy name by which you are called?

    8If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well.

    9But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

    10For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

    11For He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not kill. Now if you do not commit adultery, yet if you kill, you have become a transgressor of the law.

  • Rom 7:7
    71%

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not. Indeed, I would not have known sin except through the law: for I would not have known lust unless the law had said, 'You shall not covet.'

  • Gal 6:13
    71%

    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.

  • Mal 2:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8But you have turned out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts.

    9Therefore, I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways but have been partial in the law.

  • Gal 4:21
    71%

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

  • Jas 4:16
    70%

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

  • Ezek 22:8
    70%

    8You have despised My holy things, and have profaned My sabbaths.

  • Rom 2:12-14
    3 verses
    70%

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

    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:

  • Rom 3:7
    69%

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

  • 2 Cor 10:17
    69%

    17But he who glories, let him glory in the Lord.

  • Rom 3:20
    69%

    20Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

  • 1 Cor 4:7
    69%

    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?

  • Gal 2:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    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.

    18For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

  • 1 Cor 1:31
    69%

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

  • Rom 3:27
    69%

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

  • Gal 3:12
    69%

    12And the law is not of faith, but 'The man who does them shall live in them.'

  • 1 John 3:4
    68%

    4Whoever commits sin also transgresses the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
    68%

    17If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

  • Rom 6:15
    68%

    15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Certainly not.

  • 1 Cor 5:6
    68%

    6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

  • 1 Cor 5:2
    68%

    2And you are arrogant, and have not rather mourned, so that he who has done this deed might be removed from among you.

  • Rom 4:15
    68%

    15Because the law produces wrath; for where there is no law, there is no transgression.

  • Gal 3:10
    68%

    10For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse, for it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.'

  • Matt 15:6
    68%

    6And does not honor his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.

  • Gal 3:21
    68%

    21Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, then truly righteousness would have been by the law.

  • Rom 3:31
    68%

    31Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not: on the contrary, we establish the law.

  • Gal 5:4
    68%

    4Christ has become of no effect to you, whoever among you are justified by the law; you have fallen from grace.

  • 1 Cor 1:29
    68%

    29That no flesh should glory in his presence.

  • Job 11:3
    67%

    3Should your lies silence men? And when you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?