Romans 2:23

You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

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WEBBE

You who glory in the law, do you dishonour God by disobeying the law?

BSB

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

KJV

Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

ASV

thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonorest thou God?

BBE

You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?

Original Greek

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ὃς hos You who G3739 ἐν en in G1722 νόμῳ nomō law G3551 καυχᾶσαι kauchasai boast G2744 διὰ dia through G1223 τῆς tēs the G3588 παραβάσεως parabaseōs transgression G3847 τοῦ tou of the G3588 νόμου nomou law G3551 τὸν ton (the) G3588 θεὸν theon God G2316 ἀτιμάζεις; atimazeis dishonor you G818

The early church

"Thou that makest a boast in the Law through breaking the Law dishonorest thou God?" There are two accusations which he makes, or rather three. Both that they dishonor, and dishonor that whereby they were honored; and that they dishonor Him that honored them, which was the utmost extreme of unfeelingness. And then, not to seem to be accusing them of his own mind, he brings in the Prophet as their accuser, here briefly and concisely as it were in a summary, but afterwards more in detail, and here Isaiah, and after that David, when he had shown the grounds of reproof to be more than one. For to show, he means, that it is not I who speak these things to your reproach, hear what Isaiah saith.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Romans

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 17–24

The apostle directs his discourse to the Jews, and shows of what sins they were guilty, notwithstanding their profession and vain pretensions. A believing, humble, thankful glorying in God, is the root and sum of all religion. But proud, vain-glorious boasting in God, and in the outward profession of his name, is the root and sum of all hypocrisy. Spiritual pride is the most dangerous of all kinds of pride. A great evil of the sins professors is, the dishonour done to God and religion, by their not living according to their profession. Many despise their more ignorant neighbours who rest in a dead form of godliness; yet themselves trust in a form of knowledge, equally void of life and power, while some glory in the gospel, whose unholy lives dishonour God, and cause his name to be blasphemed.

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