You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God through the transgression of the law?
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank You that I am not like other men--swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you--Moses, in whom you have hoped.
Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest on the law, and boast in God,
Much in every way! First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. Through what law? Of works? No, but through the law of faith.
who are Israelites, of whom are the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the worship, and the promises;