Romans 2:23
What meaning of the romans 2:23 in the Bible?
What does Romans 2:23 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?"
What does Romans 2:23 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?"
MAKEST THY BOAST ... - To boast in the Law implied their conviction of its excellence and obligation, as a man does not boast of what he esteems to be of no value. DISHONOUREST THOU GOD - By boasting...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The Gentile Moralist and Reformer and His Condemnation. (Romans 2:1 .)_ 2. The Two Classes. (Romans 2:7 .) 3. The State of the Jew. (Romans 2:17 .) Romans 2:1 But in the heathen wor...
Now Paul accosts the Jew, reproving his PRIDE OF LAW, MADE VOID BY DISLOYALTY. Romans 2:17. His pretensions (But if thou bearest the name of Jew, etc.), provoke the questions of Romans 2:21 : the com...
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PRIVILEGE (Romans 2:1-11)...
THROUGH. Greek. _dia_. App-104.Romans 2:1. BREAKING, &C.. the transgression (Greek. _parabasia._ Compare App-128.:3) of the law. DISHONOUREST. Greek. _atimazo._ See Romans 1:24....
_dishonourest_ DISGRACEST. The crimes of Jews made their Lord's "name to be blasphemed among the Gentiles;" as, alas, the name of Christ is, for exactly similar reasons, often blasphemed among the hea...
17–3:20. The Gospel is needed by Jews, who have also failed through ignoring the one condition of righteousness....
ΚΑΥΧΆΣΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΚΑΥΧΆΟΜΑΙ (G2744) хвастать. _Praes._ подчеркивает констатацию факта, что они хвалились. ΠΑΡΑΒΆΣΕΩΣ (G3847) _gen. sing._ преступление, нарушение. С последующим _o...
DISCOURSE: 1826 INCONSISTENT CHRISTIANS REMONSTRATED WITH Romans 2:17. _Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, and knowest his will, and approvest the thi...
_TEXT_ Romans 2:17-24. But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God, Romans 2:18 and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instru...
_THOU THAT MAKEST THY BOAST OF THE LAW, THROUGH BREAKING THE LAW DISHONOUREST THOU GOD?_ No JFB commentary on this verse....
_THE CONDUCT OF MANKIND_ 16 Much of the judgment which obtains among men is unjust and oppressive because of their inability to uncover the real truth: But in the divine judgment the _ hidden _ thing...
THE FAILURE OF THE JEWS In Romans 1 St. Paul showed that the Gentiles were under God's judgment on account of sin. Now he is about to turn to the Jews. He asserts first, that God's judgment will fall...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 2 PAUL’S ANSWERS TO THOSE WHO *JUDGE OTHER PEOPLE 2:1-16 1. THEY CANNOT AVOID GOD’S JUDGEMENT 2:1-4 v1 So, you who *...
DISHONOUREST THOU GOD? — This verse has been regarded, not as a question, but as a summary answer to the previous questions, “You, who make all this boast in the Law, by breaking the Law, dishonour Go...
Here again the construction is changed, and probably the use of the relative instead of the participle suggests that the sentence is to be read, not as interrogative, but as declaratory. “Thou who mak...
HE REQUIRES HEART-OBEDIENCE Romans 2:21 The Jew relied upon the position given him by the privileges and rites of Judaism, although his religious life, as such, had shrunk within these outward thing...
It is evident that the apostle here turned to the Jew, though he did not immediately name him. He charged the Jew with the sin of practicing the very evils he condemned in the Gentiles. He is at least...
FIFTH PASSAGE (2:1-29). THE WRATH OF GOD SUSPENDED OVER THE JEWISH PEOPLE. In the midst of this flood of pollutions and iniquities which Gentile society presents to view, the apostle sees one who lik...
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, (18) And knowest will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; (19) And a...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
23._Thou who gloriest in the law, etc. _Though every transgressor dishonors God, (for we are all born for this end — to serve him in righteousness and holiness;) yet he justly imputes in this respect...
Two things are presented here with respect to God; His judgment against evil the evil-doer shall not escape (the real difference of right and wrong would be maintained by judgment); and His mercy, pat...
THOU THAT MAKEST THY BOAST OF THE LAW,.... Of their having it, which other nations had not; of their knowledge of it, which many of their own people were without, or had but a small share of; and of t...
Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? Ver. 23. _Through breaking_] By shooting short, or beyond, or wide of the mark; by omission, commission, or fail...
_Thou therefore which teachest another_ And valuest thyself upon thy ability to do it, trusting therein for acceptance with God; _teachest thou not thyself?_ He does not teach himself, who does not pr...
The guilt of the Jews:...
THE CASE OF THE CULTURED GREEK But there is a class of Gentiles who are quite keen in seeing these evils in others, and unhesitatingly judging them for them, while never considering that the same jud...
Romans 2:17-29 1. What is the difference between an inward Jew and an outward Jew? a. What was an outward Jew? i. Circumcised ii. Good self-image 1. Name Jew means a lot to him 2. Rested in the...
THOU WHO GLORIEST IN THE LAW, THROUGH THY TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW DISHONOREST THOU GOD? These verses set forth the guilt of the Jew. Paul accuses them of adultery, theft and sacrilege. They opposed...
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 t...
Dost thou bring a reproach upon religion, and give occasion to the Gentiles to blaspheme his name? So it follows in the next words. See ROMANS 2:24....
thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonorest thou god? [These questions bring out the flagrant inconsistencies between Jewish preaching and practice. Teaching others...
Origen Against Celsus Book VIII But that the honour which we pay to the Son of God, as well as that which we render to God the Father, consists of an upright course of life, is plainly taught us by t...
Romans 2:23 You G3739 boast G2744 (G5736) in G1722 law G3551 dishonor G818 (G5719) God G2316 through G1223 breaking G3847 law G3551 that makest - Romans 2:17, Romans 3:2, Romans 9:4;...
THE SPECIAL CASE OF THE JEW. PAUL IS ANSWERING THE QUESTION - ‘DOES NOT HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAW AND THE UNDERSTANDING THAT GOES WITH IT, ALONG WITH THE FACT THAT HE IS CIRCUMCISED INTO GOD'S COVENANT...
2. THE SINFULNESS OF THE JEWS, AS A PROOF OF THEIR NEED OF THE GOSPEL. This passage contains the second part of the proof of the universality of sin, and hence of the universal need of the gospel, whe...
THROUGH THY TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW (δια της παραβασεως του νομου). Old word for stepping across a line. Trench calls attention to "the mournfully numerous group of words" for the varieties of sin...
BREAKING THE LAW SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
Romans 2 The Practical Outcome of Judaism. I. The first thing on which St. Paul lays anxious stress in this passage is this: The judgment of God according to men's works is just, inevitable, and imp...
CONTENTS: The equal standing of Jew and Gentile before the justice of God. Morality apart from Christ useless as means of salvation. Jews knowing the law condemned by the law. CHARACTERS: God. CONCL...
Romans 2:1. _Therefore thou art inexcusable, oh man,_ whether Roman or Jew, who judgest another, and doest the same thing thyself, though it may be in some other way. But as the judgment of God is acc...
YOU BOAST ABOUT. They were proud of the fact that God had given them the Law. But they shamed God by the way they lived their lives....
_Behold, thou art called a Jew._ THE JEWS ALSO WITHOUT EXCUSE Hitherto the apostle, in seeking to shut up the Jew unto the faith of Christ, has contented himself with an enunciation of the equitable...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 2:1 Most interpreters say that Paul focuses on the sin of the Jews throughout this chapter. Another view is that the sin of the moral person (whether Jewish or Gentile) who judge...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 2:18.—κατηχούμενος, being orally instructed. Romans 2:21.—This verse may be illustrated out of the Jewish writings, for they say, “He who teacheth others what he doth not him...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 2:1 (_b_) _Those who judge others, not excepting the Jews. _Here a new stage of the argument, in proof of the position propounded in Romans 1:18, begins, and is continued to the end...
Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judges (Romans 2:1): You see, I read this list and I say, "Oh, yes, it is horrible. My, I just don't know what we are going to do, the w...
James 1:22; James 4:16; James 4:17; Jeremiah 8:8; Jeremiah 8:9; John 5:45; John 9:28; John 9:29; Luke 10:26; Luke 18:11;...
Transgression [π α ρ α β α σ ε ω ς]. Trench remarks upon "the mournfully numerous group of words" which express the different aspects of sin. It is aJmartia the missing of a mark; parabasiv the overpa...