Romans 2:23

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

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  • Rom 2:17 : 17 The Condemnation of the Jew But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God
  • Rom 3:2 : 2 Actually, there are many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.
  • Rom 9:4 : 4 who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.
  • John 5:45 : 45 “Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.
  • John 9:28-29 : 28 They heaped insults on him, saying,“You are his disciple! We are disciples of Moses! 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses! We do not know where this man comes from!”
  • Jas 1:22-27 : 22 But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves. 23 For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone who gazes at his own face in a mirror. 24 For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets what sort of person he was. 25 But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out– he will be blessed in what he does. 26 If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile. 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their adversity and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
  • Jas 4:16-17 : 16 But as it is, you boast about your arrogant plans. All such boasting is evil. 17 So whoever knows what is good to do and does not do it is guilty of sin.
  • Jer 8:8-9 : 8 How can you say,“We are wise! We have the law of the LORD”? The truth is, those who teach it have used their writings to make it say what it does not really mean. 9 Your wise men will be put to shame. They will be dumbfounded and be brought to judgment. Since they have rejected the LORD’s message, what wisdom do they really have?
  • Matt 19:17-20 : 17 He said to him,“Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.” 18 “Which ones?” he asked. Jesus replied,“Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, 19 honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.” 20 The young man said to him,“I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws. What do I still lack?”
  • Luke 10:26-29 : 26 He said to him,“What is written in the law? How do you understand it?” 27 The expert answered,“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.” 28 Jesus said to him,“You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” 29 But the expert, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus,“And who is my neighbor?”
  • Luke 18:11 : 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this:‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: extortionists, unrighteous people, adulterers– or even like this tax collector.

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  • Rom 2:17-22
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    17The Condemnation of the Jew But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

    18and know his will and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law,

    19and if you are convinced that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

    20an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth–

    21therefore you who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

    22You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

  • Rom 2:24-27
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    81%

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

    25For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

    26Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

    27The physically uncircumcised man, by keeping the law, will judge you to be the transgressor of the law, even though you have the letter and circumcision!

  • Rom 2:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1The Condemnation of the Moralist Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge someone else. For on whatever grounds you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.

    2Now we know that God’s judgment is in accordance with truth against those who practice such things.

    3And do you think, whoever you are, when you judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape God’s judgment?

  • Jas 2:7-11
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    7Do they not blaspheme the good name of the one you belong to?

    8But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture,“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

    9But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.

    10For the one who obeys the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

    11For he who said,“Do not commit adultery,” also said,“Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a violator of the law.

  • Rom 7:7
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    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said,“Do not covet.”

  • Gal 6:13
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    13For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh.

  • Mal 2:8-9
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    8You, however, have turned from the way. You have caused many to violate the law; you have corrupted the covenant with Levi,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

    9“Therefore, I have caused you to be ignored and belittled before all people to the extent to which you are not following after me and are showing partiality in your instruction.”

  • Gal 4:21
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    21An Appeal from Allegory Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?

  • Jas 4:16
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    16But as it is, you boast about your arrogant plans. All such boasting is evil.

  • Ezek 22:8
    70%

    8You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths!

  • Rom 2:12-14
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    12For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

    13For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

    14For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

  • Rom 3:7
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    7For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?

  • 2 Cor 10:17
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    17But the one who boasts must boast in the Lord.

  • Rom 3:20
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    20For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • 1 Cor 4:7
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    7For who concedes you any superiority? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not?

  • Gal 2:17-18
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    17But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not!

    18But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law.

  • 1 Cor 1:31
    69%

    31so that, as it is written,“Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

  • Rom 3:27
    69%

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

  • Gal 3:12
    69%

    12But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them.

  • 1 John 3:4
    68%

    4Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
    68%

    17If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.

  • Rom 6:15
    68%

    15The Believer’s Enslavement to God’s Righteousness What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

  • 1 Cor 5:6
    68%

    6Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast affects the whole batch of dough?

  • 1 Cor 5:2
    68%

    2And you are proud! Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?

  • Rom 4:15
    68%

    15For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.

  • Gal 3:10
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    10For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written,“Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.”

  • Matt 15:6
    68%

    6he does not need to honor his father.’ You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition.

  • Gal 3:21
    68%

    21Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.

  • Rom 3:31
    68%

    31Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.

  • Gal 5:4
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    4You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

  • 1 Cor 1:29
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    29so that no one can boast in his presence.

  • Job 11:3
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    3Should people remain silent at your idle talk, and should no one rebuke you when you mock?