Romans 2:23
You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God through the transgression of the law?
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 19:17So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
Luke 18:11The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
John 9:28Then they reviled him and said, “You are His disciple, but we are Moses' disciples.
Romans 3:2Much in every way! First of all, that they were entrusted with the very words of God!
James 1:22But become 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 →