Rom 2:17-29 | ESV | STEP | But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God

iCited from Isa. 52:5

j[2 Sam. 12:14; Ezek. 36:20, 23; 2 Pet. 2:2]

k Gal. 5:3

l Eph. 2:11; [ch. 3:30]

m ch. 1:32; 8:4

pSee Matt. 12:41

q ver. 29; ch. 7:6; 2 Cor. 3:6

s ch. 9:6-8; [Gal. 6:15]

t[ver. 17]

uSee 1 Pet. 3:4

v[Deut. 10:16; 30:6; Jer. 4:4; Acts 7:51; Phil. 3:3; Col. 2:11]

w 2 Cor. 10:18; 1 Thess. 2:4; [Gal. 1:10]

Romans 2:17-29

17 But if you call yourself a Jew and ^arely on the law and boast in God 18 and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law; 19 and if you are sure that you yourself are ^ba guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law ^cthe embodiment of ^dknowledge and truth— 21 ^eyou then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? 22 You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you ^frob temples? 23 You who ^gboast in the law ^hdishonor God by breaking the law. 24 For, ⁱas it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed ^jamong the Gentiles because of you.”

25 For circumcision indeed is of value ^kif you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. 26 So, if ^la man who is uncircumcised keeps ^mthe precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded ^{▼▼Or counted} as circumcision? 27 Then he who is physically ^{▼▼Or is by nature} uncircumcised but keeps the law ^pwill condemn you who have ^qthe written code ^{▼▼Or the letter} and circumcision but break the law. 28 For ^sno one is a Jew ^twho is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. 29 But a Jew is one ^uinwardly, and ^vcircumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. ^wHis praise is not from man but from God.