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 glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?
• Mic 3:11Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”
• Isa 48:1–2“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness
• Rev 2:9“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
• John 5:45“Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
• Matt 3:9Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
• Rom 9:32Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
• Rom 9:4–7who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
• Rom 2:28–29For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
• 2 Cor 11:22Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.
• Rev 3:1“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
• Luke 10:28He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”
• Jer 7:4–10Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’
• Phil 3:3–7For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
• Eph 2:11Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision”, (in the flesh, made by hands);
• Matt 8:11–12I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,
• John 8:41You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”
• Zeph 3:11In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be haughty in my holy mountain.
• John 9:28–29They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
• Isa 45:25All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh, and will rejoice!
• Gal 2:15“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,
• Rev 3:9Behold, I give some of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
• Ps 135:4For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.
• John 8:33They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”
• John 7:19Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”

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