Rom 2:23
Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
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But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is {one} that accuseth you, {even} Moses, in whom ye trust.
Who are Israelites; to whom {pertaineth} the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service {of God}, and the promises; {covenants: or, testaments}
He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men {are}, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? {there is} none good but one, {that is}, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
How do ye say, We {are} wise, and the law of the LORD {is} with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he {it}; the pen of the scribes {is} in vain. {in vain made...: or, the false pen of the scribes worketh for falsehood}
Where {is} boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept {it}.
And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and, behold, {if} the scall spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the scall {be} not in sight deeper than the skin;