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Romans 2:23

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 heathen now.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 .)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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 comm...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    If you are called by the name of Jew, if you take your rest in the Law, if you boast in God and know his will, if you give your approval to the excellent things, if you are instructed in the Law, if y...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PRIVILEGE (Romans 2:1-11)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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....

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    17–3:20. The Gospel is needed by Jews, who have also failed through ignoring the one condition of righteousness....

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    The nexus is marked by the particles—οὖν (21) sums up the privileges and introduces, in the form of questions, the contrast in the actual facts; γὰρ (24) implies the answer yes to the preceding questi...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ἈΤΙΜΆΖΕΙΣ; S. H. and Giff. support ἀτιμάζεις. and treat it as a direct statement summing up the points of the preceding questions. Yet the interrogative form is more forcible here too. The claim expli...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    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...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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 thing...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THOU THAT MAKEST THY BOAST OF THE LAW, THROUGH BREAKING THE LAW DISHONOUREST THOU GOD?_ No JFB commentary on this verse....

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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 *...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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 things...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    “ _And if, then, thou who teachest another, teachest not thyself, if preaching a man should not steal, thou stealest, if, while saying a man should not commit adultery, thou committest adultery, if, a...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    The _second part_ of the chapter, Romans 2:17-29, contains _the application_ of the principles laid down in the first. After expressing himself in a general and more or less abstract way, Paul address...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THOU THAT MAKEST THY BOAST OF THE LAW, THROUGH BREAKING THE LAW DISHONOREST THOU GOD?...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The guilt of the Jews:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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 judg...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    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 s...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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....

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    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...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Romans 2:23 You G3739 boast G2744 (G5736) in G1722 law G3551 dishonor G818 (G5719) God G2316 through...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘You, who are boasting in the law, are through your transgression of the law dishonouring God.' This may in fact be a question (‘are you through your transgression dishonouring God?') or a statement ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Romans 2:23. THOU THAT BOASTEST IN. Comp. Romans 2:17. Through THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW DISHONOREST THOU GOD? or, ‘thou dishonorest God.' It is difficult to decide whether this verse is a question...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    _2. The Jew is Condemned; His External Circumcision does not Avail._ This section contains the direct application to the case of the Jew, in the form of an indignant outburst (Romans 2:17-24), much of...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    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...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    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...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    BREAKING THE LAW SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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 impa...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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. CONCLU...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    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....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 2:21 The Jews fail to practice the law they proclaim. Thus they will face judgment. ⇐ ⇔

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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 hims...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    James 1:22; James 4:16; James 4:17; Jeremiah 8:8; Jeremiah 8:9;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    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...

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