Romans 2:23

Amplified Bible

You who boast in the Law, do you [repeatedly] dishonor God by breaking the Law?

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
You are so proud that you have God's law, but you bring shame to God by breaking his law.

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

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Thou reioysest in the lawe and thorow breakinge the lawe dishonourest God.

Hebrew Names Version
You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?

International Standard Version
As you boast about the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?Romans 2:17;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God?

New Century Version
You brag about having God's law, but you bring shame to God by breaking his law,

Update Bible Version
you who glory in the law, through your transgression of the law do you dishonor God?

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonorest thou God?

English Standard Version
You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law.

World English Bible
You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Thou that gloriest in the law, dost thou by transgressing the law dishonour God?

Weymouth's New Testament
You who make your boast in the Law, do you offend against its commands and so dishonour God?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou that hast glorie in the lawe, vnworschipist God bi brekyng of the lawe?

English Revised Version
thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonourest thou God?

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

Contemporary English Version
You take pride in the Law, but you disobey the Law and bring shame to God.

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

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

Complete Jewish Bible
You who take such pride in Torah, do you, by disobeying the Torah, dishonor God? —

Darby Translation
thou who boastest in law, dost thou by transgression of the law dishonour God?

Etheridge Translation
And thou who boastest of the law, in this that thou transgressest against the law, Aloha himself despisest thou?

Murdock Translation
And thou who gloriest in the law, dost thou, by acting contrary to the law, insult God himself?

King James Version (1611)
Thou that makest thy boast of the Law, through breaking the Law dishonourest thou God?

New Living Translation
You are so proud of knowing the law, but you dishonor God by breaking it.

New Life Bible
You are proud of the Law. Do you take honor away from God when you do not obey the Law?

New Revised Standard
You that boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou that gloriest in the Lawe, through breaking the Lawe, dishonourest thou God?

George Lamsa Translation
You are proud of the law but you dishonor God by breaking the law.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
That in law dost boast, Through the transgression of the law, art thou dishonouring God?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou, that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest God.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou that makest thy boast of ye lawe, through breakyng the lawe dishonorest God.

Good News Translation
You boast about having God's law—but do you bring shame on God by breaking his law?

Christian Standard Bible®
You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

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

Lexham English Bible
Who boast in the law, by the transgression of the law you dishonor God!

Literal Translation
You who boast in Law, do you dishonor God through transgression of the Law?

Young's Literal Translation
thou who in the law dost boast, through the transgression of the law God dost thou dishonour?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou makest thy boost of the lawe, and thorow breakynge of the lawe thou dishonorest God.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and you, who glory in the law, do you dishonour God by the violation of the law?

New English Translation
You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

New King James Version
You who make your boast in the law, do you dishonor God through breaking the law?

Simplified Cowboy Version
You take pride in the Code, but then you turn your back on it every time it suits you. You don't bring honor to God, but shame.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God?

Legacy Standard Bible
You who boast in the Law, through your transgression of the Law, do you dishonor God?

Contextual Overview

¹⁷But if you bear the name "Jew" and rely on the Law [for your salvation] and boast in [your special relationship to] God, ¹⁸and [if you claim to] know His will and approve the things that are essential or have a sense of what is excellent, based on your instruction from the Law, ¹⁹and [if you] are confident that you are a [qualified] guide to the blind [those untaught in theology], a light to those who are in darkness, ²⁰and [that you are] a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the [spiritually] childish, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth— ²¹well then, you who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal [in ways that are discrete, but just as sinful]? ²²You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who detest idols, do you rob [pagan] temples [of valuable idols and offerings]? ²³You who boast in the Law, do you [repeatedly] dishonor God by breaking the Law?²⁴For, "THE NAME OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES BECAUSE OF YOU," just as it is written [in Scripture]. ²⁵Circumcision [the sign of the covenant of Abraham] is indeed of value if you practice the Law; but if you habitually break the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision [it is meaningless in God's sight]. ²⁶So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded [by God] as circumcision?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that makest: Romans 2:17, Romans 3:2, Romans 9:4, Jeremiah 8:8, Jeremiah 8:9, Matthew 19:17-20, Luke 10:26-29, Luke 18:11, John 5:45, John 9:28, John 9:29, James 1:22-27, James 4:16, James 4:17

Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:32 - yellow hair Leviticus 26:1 - Ye shall Psalms 39:8 - make Psalms 50:17 - hatest Matthew 18:7 - unto Acts 7:53 - and have Romans 1:30 - boasters Romans 2:25 - but if Romans 3:27 - Where James 3:14 - glory

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
And the LORD God planted a garden (oasis) in the east, in Eden (delight, land of happiness); and He put the man whom He had formed (created) there.

Genesis 2:9
And [in that garden] the LORD God caused to grow from the ground every tree that is desirable and pleasing to the sight and good (suitable, pleasant) for food; the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the [experiential] knowledge (recognition) of [the difference between] good and evil.

Genesis 29:14
Then Laban said to him, "You are my bone and my flesh." And Jacob stayed with him a month.

Judges 9:2
"Speak now in the hearing of all the leaders of Shechem, 'Which is better for you, that seventy men, all of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one man rule over you?' Also, remember that I am your own bone and flesh."

2 Samuel 5:1
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, "Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

2 Samuel 19:13
"Say to Amasa [the commander of Absalom's troops], 'Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God do so to me, and more also, if you will not be commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.'"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou that makest thy boast of the law,.... Of their having it, which other nations had not; of their knowledge of it, which many of their own people were without, or had but a small share of; and of their keeping of it even to perfection:

through breaking of the law dishonourest thou God? sin sometimes is expressed by a word which signifies a "fall"; sometimes by another, which signifies missing of the mark, or straying from it; sometimes by another, which signifies a "contrariety to the law" of God; and here, by one which signifies a "passing over it", and the bounds which it has set, as the rule of man's obedience; and hereby God, the lawgiver, is dishonoured: for as God is glorified by good works, when rightly performed, he is dishonoured by evil ones; for his authority, as a lawgiver, is trampled upon and despised. Now persons guilty of such iniquities as here mentioned, could not be justified before God, or accepted by him on account of any works of righteousness done by them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Makest thy boast ... - To boast in the Law implied their conviction of its excellence and obligation, as a man does not boast of what he esteems to be of no value.

Dishonourest thou God - By boasting of the Law, they proclaimed their conviction that it was from God. By breaking it, they denied it. And as actions are a true test of man’s real opinions, their breaking the Law did it more dishonor than their boasting of it did it honor. This is always the case. It matters little what a man’s speculative opinions may be; his practice may do far more to disgrace religion than his profession does to honor it. It is the life and conduct, and not merely the profession of the lips, that does real honor to the true religion. Alas, with what pertinency and force may this question be put to many who call themselves Christians!