All the descendants of Israel will be justified and boast in the Lord.
Romans 2:17 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the law, and boast in God, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God, Common English Bible 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 But if you are called by name a Jew, and you rest upon the law, and you find glory in God, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, |
All the descendants of Israel will be justified and boast in the Lord.
Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe, her priests teach for payment, and her prophets practise divination for silver. Yet they lean on the Lord, saying, ‘Isn’t the Lord among us? No disaster will overtake us.’
On that day you will not be put to shame because of everything you have done in rebelling against me. For then I will remove from among you your jubilant, arrogant people, and you will never again be haughty on my holy mountain.
And don’t presume to say to yourselves, “We have Abraham as our father.” For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.
‘You’ve answered correctly,’ he told him. ‘Do this and you will live.’
You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, and yet they testify about me.
Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
Didn’t Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me? ’
‘We are descendants of Abraham,’ they answered him, ‘and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, “You will become free”? ’
You’re doing what your father does.’ ‘We weren’t born of sexual immorality,’ they said. ‘We have one Father #– #God.’
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? , By one of works? No, on the contrary, by a law of faith.
Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the descendants of Abraham? So am I.
So, then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh #– #called ‘the uncircumcised’ by those called ‘the circumcised’, which is done in the flesh by human hands.
I know your affliction and poverty, but you are rich. I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
‘Write to the angel of the church in Sardis: Thus says the one who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: I know your works; you have a reputation for being alive, but you are dead.
Note this: I will make those from the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews and are not, but are lying #– #I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and they will know that I have loved you.