Romans 2:17 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

You call yourself a Jew, rely on the laws in Moses' Teachings, brag about your God,(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God,

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

WEY:

And since you claim the name of Jew, and find rest and satisfaction in the Law, and make your boast in God,

WBS:

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

WEB:

Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,

YLT:

Lo, thou art named a Jew, and dost rest upon the law, and dost boast in God,

Romans 2:17 Cross References

XREF:

Micah 3:11 Her leaders pronounce judgment for a bribe, Her priests instruct for a price And her prophets divine for money. Yet they lean on the LORD saying, "Is not the LORD in our midst? Calamity will not come upon us."

John 5:45 "Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope.

Romans 2:23 You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God?

Romans 9:4 who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons, and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the temple service and the promises, (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

2:17 {8} Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
(8) He proves by the testimony of David, and the other prophets, that God bestows greatest benefits upon the Jews, in giving them also the law, but that they are the most unthankful and unkind of all men.

PNT:

2:17 Behold, thou art called a Jew. Already, Paul has shown that all men, Jew or Gentile, will be judged according to their deeds, whether they have the law or not (Ro 2:1-16). Now he applies the argument directly to the Jew, in order to show his need of the gospel as well as the Gentile. Ro 2:17-20 state what the Jew claimed for himself.
Called a Jew. To Paul the word Jew had a meaning much like Christian to us. It meant to him one of God's people.
Rested upon the law. There is no article before law in the Greek. The Jew had law, in this case the law, for his foundation.
Makest thy boast of God. Boasted of God's favor to his race.

WES:

2:17 But if thou art called a Jew - This highest point of Jewish glorying, after a farther description of it interposed, Rom 2:17 - 20, and refuted, Rom 2:21 - 24, is itself refuted, Rom 2:25, and c. The description consists of twice five articles; of which the former five, Rom 2:17,18, show what he boasts of in himself; the other five, Rom 2:19,20, what he glories in with respect to others. The first particular of the former five answers to the first of the latter; the second, to the second, and so on. And restest in the law - Dependest on it, though it can only condemn thee. And gloriest in God - As thy God; and that, too, to the exclusion of others.

MHC:

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.

CONC:

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Bear Boast Claim Find Gloriest Glory Indeed Jew Law Makest Relation Relationship Rely Rest Resting Satisfaction

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