Romans 2:17 Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;

English Standard Version
But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God

New American Standard Bible
But if you bear the name "Jew " and rely upon the Law and boast in God,

King James Bible
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rest in the law, boast in God,

International Standard Version
Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the Law, and boast about God,

American Standard Version
But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

Darby Bible Translation
But if thou art named a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast in God,

Young's Literal Translation
Lo, thou art named a Jew, and dost rest upon the law, and dost boast in God,

Cross References

Isaiah 48:2
For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.

Micah 3:11
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean on the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come on us.

John 5:39
Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

John 5:45
Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuses you, even Moses, in whom you trust.

John 9:28
Then they reviled him, and said, You are his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.

Romans 2:23
You that make your boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonor you God?

Romans 2:28
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

Romans 3:27
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No: but by the law of faith.

Romans 9:4
Who are Israelites; to whom pertains the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

2:17-24 The apostle directs his discourse to the Jews, and shows of what sins they were guilty, notwithstanding their profession and vain pretensions. A believing, humble, thankful glorying in God, is the root and sum of all religion. But proud, vain-glorious boasting in God, and in the outward profession of his name, is the root and sum of all hypocrisy. Spiritual pride is the most dangerous of all kinds of pride. A great evil of the sins professors is, the dishonour done to God and religion, by their not living according to their profession. Many despise their more ignorant neighbours who rest in a dead form of godliness; yet themselves trust in a form of knowledge, equally void of life and power, while some glory in the gospel, whose unholy lives dishonour God, and cause his name to be blasphemed.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

17-24. Behold—"But if" is, beyond doubt, the true reading here. (It differs but in a single letter from the received reading, and the sense is the same).