Romans 2:23

World English Bible (2000)

You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?

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  • Rom 2:17 : 17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,
  • Rom 3:2 : 2 Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
  • Rom 9:4 : 4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
  • John 5:45 : 45 "Don't think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
  • John 9:28-29 : 28 They insulted him and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don't know where he comes from."
  • Jas 1:22-27 : 22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does. 26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless. 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 unstained by the world.
  • Jas 4:16-17 : 16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil. 17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.
  • Jer 8:8-9 : 8 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely. 9 The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what kind of wisdom is in them?
  • Matt 19:17-20 : 17 He said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is 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 offer false testimony.' 19 'Honor your father and mother.' And, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'" 20 The young man said to him, "All these things I have observed from my youth. 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 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 He said to him, "You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live." 29 But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?"
  • Luke 18:11 : 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 2:17-22
    6 verses
    83%

    17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,

    18 and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

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

    20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

    21 You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do you steal?

    22 You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

  • Rom 2:24-27
    4 verses
    81%

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

    25 For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

    26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

    27 Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

  • Rom 2:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

    2 We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

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

  • Jas 2:7-11
    5 verses
    74%

    7 Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

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

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

    10 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

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

  • Rom 7:7
    71%

    7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

  • Gal 6:13
    71%

    13 For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

  • Mal 2:8-9
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    71%

    8 But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of Armies.

    9 "Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.

  • Gal 4:21
    71%

    21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law?

  • Jas 4:16
    70%

    16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

  • Ezek 22:8
    70%

    8 You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

  • Rom 2:12-14
    3 verses
    70%

    12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

    13 For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

    14 (for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

  • Rom 3:7
    69%

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

  • 2 Cor 10:17
    69%

    17 But "he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

  • Rom 3:20
    69%

    20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • 1 Cor 4:7
    69%

    7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

  • Gal 2:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17 But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

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

  • 1 Cor 1:31
    69%

    31 that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

  • Rom 3:27
    69%

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

  • Gal 3:12
    69%

    12 The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."

  • 1 John 3:4
    68%

    4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
    68%

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

  • Rom 6:15
    68%

    15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

  • 1 Cor 5:6
    68%

    6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

  • 1 Cor 5:2
    68%

    2 You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

  • Rom 4:15
    68%

    15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

  • Gal 3:10
    68%

    10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."

  • Matt 15:6
    68%

    6 he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

  • Gal 3:21
    68%

    21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

  • Rom 3:31
    68%

    31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

  • Gal 5:4
    68%

    4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

  • 1 Cor 1:29
    68%

    29 that no flesh should boast before God.

  • Job 11:3
    67%

    3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?