Romans 2:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

Romans 2:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 2:23
Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
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 upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
Isaiah 48:1-2
Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness. …
Revelation 2:9
I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty,(but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Romans 9:32
Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;

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Conceit Consistency Deceit Deception Depravity of Man Dishonesty Dissembling Falsehood

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-29)

In the latter part of the chapter the apostle directs his discourse more closely to the Jews, and shows what sins they were guilty of, notwithstanding their profession and vain pretensions. He had said (Rom. 2:13) that not the hearers but the doers of the law are justified; and he here applies that great truth to the Jews. Observe, I. He allows their profession (Rom. 2:17-20) and specifies their p…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

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).