Romans 2:23
You who make your boast in the law, do you, by transgressing the law, dishonor God?
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
In Context
24For the name of God is reviled among the Gentiles, on account of you, as it is written.
Cross References
Matthew 19:17Why do you call me good? There is none good but one, that is God. But if you desire to enter into life, keep the commandments.
Luke 18:11The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
John 9:28They reviled him, and said: You are the disciple of that man; but we are the disciples of Moses.
Romans 3:2Much in every respect; but chiefly that the oracles of God were intrusted to them.
James 1:22But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Matthew Henry on Romans 2:18-29
The Pretensions of the Jews; The Depravity of the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, 18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; 19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, 20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. 21 Thou therefore which teachest… Read the whole commentary →