Romans 2:17 - The Message

^17-24 If you’re brought up Jewish, don’t assume that you can lean back in the arms of your religion and take it easy, feeling smug because you’re an insider to God’s revelation, a connoisseur of the best things of God, informed on the latest doctrines! I have a special word of caution for you who are sure that you have it all together yourselves and, because you know God’s revealed Word inside and out, feel qualified to guide others through their blind alleys and dark nights and confused emotions to God. While you are guiding others, who is going to guide you? I’m quite serious. While preaching “Don’t steal!” are you going to rob people blind? Who would suspect you? The same with adultery. The same with idolatry. You can get by with almost anything if you front it with eloquent talk about God and his law. The line from Scripture, “It’s because of you Jews that the outsiders frown on God,” shows it’s an old problem that isn’t going to go away.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ But if you bear the name of Jew and rely upon the Law and pride yourselves in God and your relationship to Him,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God,

Common English Bible

¹⁷ But, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the Law; if you brag about your relationship to God;

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ But if you are called by name a Jew, and you rest upon the law, and you find glory in God,

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