Rom 2:17-20 | NET2full | STEP | But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

‏ Romans 2:17-20

The Condemnation of the Jew

17 But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law ^{▼▼sn The law refers to the Mosaic law, described mainly in the OT books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.} and boast of your relationship to God ^{▼▼tn Grk “boast in God.” This may be an allusion to Jer 9:24.} 18 and know his will ^{▼▼tn Grk “the will.”} and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law, ^{▼▼tn Grk “because of being instructed out of the law.”} 19 and if you are convinced ^{▼▼tn This verb is parallel to the verbs in vv. 17-18a, so it shares the conditional meaning even though the word “if” is not repeated.} that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth—