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Romans 2:17

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely upon the law and boast of your relation to God

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You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

Its heads give judgment for a bribe, its priests teach for hire, its prophets divine for money; yet they lean upon the Lord and say, “Is not the Lord in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us.”

“ ‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

Why? Because they did not pursue it through faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,

Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; it is Moses who accuses you, on whom you set your hope.

and do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and learn that I have loved you.

“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. “ ‘I know your works; you have the name of being alive, and you are dead.

Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called the uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands—

We ourselves, who are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners,

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

You do what your father did.” They said to him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.”

They answered him, “We are descendants of Abraham, and have never been in bondage to any one. How is it that you say, ‘You will be made free’?”

Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?”

And he said to him, “You have answered right; do this, and you will live.”

“On that day you shall not be put to shame because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me; for then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty in my holy mountain.

In the Lord all the offspring of Israel shall triumph and glory.”

For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his own possession.

You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me;

Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On the principle of works? No, but on the principle of faith.




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