Romans 2:23
You who make your boast in the law, do you dishonour God by breaking the law?
Revised King James 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 as it is written, The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.
Cross References
Matthew 19:17And he said to him, Why do you ask me what is good? there is no one good but One: but if you wish 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 as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax gatherer.
John 9:28Then they reviled him, and said, You are his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.
Romans 3:2Much in every way: First, because the oracles of God were entrusted 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 →