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The Jews and the Law

Romans 2:23

In 9 translations

BSB
You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
KJV
Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
WEB
You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?
ASV
thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonorest thou God?
LSV
You who boast in the Law, through the transgression of the Law do you dishonor God?
YLT
thou who in the law dost boast, through the transgression of the law God dost thou dishonour?
DBY
thou who boastest in law, dost thou by transgression of the law dishonour God?Elohim
DRC
Thou that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest God.
GNV
Thou that gloriest in the Lawe, through breaking the Lawe, dishonourest thou God?

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
ὃς ἐν νόμῳ καυχᾶσαι, διὰ τῆς παραβάσεως τοῦ νόμου τὸν θεὸν ἀτιμάζεις;
RP2018
Ὃς ἐν νόμῳ καυχᾶσαι, διὰ τῆς παραβάσεως τοῦ νόμου τὸν θεὸν ἀτιμάζεις;
TR-Boyd
Ὃς ἐν νόμῳ καυχᾶσαι, διὰ τῆς παραβάσεως τοῦ νόμου τὸν Θεὸν ἀτιμάζεις;
SCR1894
ος εν νομω καυχασαι δια της παραβασεως του νομου τον θεον ατιμαζεις

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  • James 4:16–17As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
  • Romans 2:17Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;
  • Romans 9:4the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.
  • John 5:45Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.
  • Romans 3:2Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.
  • John 9:28–29Then they heaped insults on him and said, “You are His disciple; we are disciples of Moses. We know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this man is from.”
  • James 1:22–27Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves. For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror, and after observing himself…
  • Luke 18:11The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
  • Matthew 19:17–20“Why do you ask Me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.” “Which ones?” the man asked. Jesus answered, “‘Do not murder, do not commit…
  • Luke 10:26–29“What is written in the Law?” Jesus replied. “How do you read it?” He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your…
  • Jeremiah 8:8–9How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception? The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have…

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