Romans 2:17

Paul addresses the Jew who relies on the law and boasts in his relationship with God. He confronts confidence based on privilege rather than obedience.

Cross-references · 25

• Rom 2:23You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
• Mic 3:11Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”
• Isa 48:1–2“Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, who have descended from the line of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, who invoke the God of Israel—but not in truth or righteousness—
• Rev 2:9I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.
• John 5:45Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.
• Matt 3:9And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
• Rom 9:32Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
• Rom 9:4–7the 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.
• Rom 2:28–29A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.
• 2 Cor 11:22Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
• Rev 3:1“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of the One who holds the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation for being alive, yet you are dead.
• Luke 10:28“You have answered correctly,” Jesus said. “Do this and you will live.”
• Jer 7:4–10Do not trust in deceptive words, chanting: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
• Phil 3:3–7For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—
• Eph 2:11Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—
• Matt 8:11–12I say to you that many will come from the east and the west to share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
• John 8:41You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”
• Zeph 3:11On that day you will not be put to shame for any of the deeds by which you have transgressed against Me. For then I will remove from among you those who rejoice in their pride, and you will never again be haughty on My holy mountain.
• John 9:28–29Then they heaped insults on him and said, “You are His disciple; we are disciples of Moses.
• Isa 45:25In the LORD all descendants of Israel will be justified and will exult.
• Gal 2:15We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners”
• Rev 3:9Look at those who belong to the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews but are liars instead. I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and they will know that I love you.
• Ps 135:4For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.
• John 8:33“We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free?”
• John 7:19Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”

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