Romans 2:23
thou who gloriest in the law, dishonourest thou God by the transgression of the law?
Thomas Haweis 1795 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 blasphemed through you among the heathen, as it is written.
Cross References
Matthew 19:17Then he said to him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, even God: but if thou art desirous of entering into life, keep the commandments.
Luke 18:11The Pharisee, standing by himself, made this prayer: God, I thank thee, that I am not as the rest of mankind, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or as this tax-gatherer.
John 9:28Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple, but we are the disciples of Moses.
Romans 3:2Much in every view: the principal one indeed is, that the oracles of God were entrusted to them.
James 1:22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves by false reasoning.
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 →