Romans 2:17 Cross References - Riverside

¹⁷ But if you bear the name of Jew and rely upon the Law, and make your boast in God

⁹ and do not think of saying to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you God is able out of these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

¹¹ I tell you many will come from the east and from the west and will recline at table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. ¹² But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the darkness outside. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth."

²⁸ Jesus said to him, "You have answered correctly; do this and you will live."

⁴⁵ Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. You have an accuser, Moses in whom you trust.

¹⁹ Did not Moses give you the Law? Yet no one of you keeps the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

³³ They answered him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have never been in slavery to any man. How do you say, 'You will become free'?"

⁴¹ You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of unchastity. We have one father — God."

²⁸ They flouted him and said, "You are that man's disciple; we are Moses' disciples. ²⁹ We know that God spoke to Moses, but this man — we do not know where he comes from."

²³ You who boast of the Law, do you dishonor God by breaking the Law?

²⁸ For it is not he who is one outwardly that is a Jew, nor is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh. ²⁹ But he who is one secretly is a Jew, and circumcision is of the heart and in the spirit, not in the letter. His praise is not from men, but from God.

⁴ who are Israelites, whose is the sonship and the glory and the covenants and the reception of the law and the worship and the promises; ⁵ whose are the fathers and from whom by physical descent the Christ came. God who is over all be blessed through the ages! Amen. ⁶ Not that God's word has failed. For not all who are of Israel are Israel; ⁷ nor because they are descendants of Abraham are they all children; but "through Isaac shall your descendants be named."

³² Why? Because they pursued it not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled over that stumbling stone,

²² Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descended from Abraham? So am I.

¹⁵ We who are Jews by nature and not sinners of the Gentiles,

¹¹ Therefore remember that once you were Gentiles in the flesh and were called uncircumcision by the so-called circumcision in the flesh, made by hands,

³ For we are the circumcision, we who worship in the Spirit of God and exult in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, ⁴ though I have ground for confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has ground for confidence in the flesh, I have more — ⁵ circumcised the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews, as to the Law a Pharisee, ⁶ as to zeal persecuting the church, as to the righteousness of the Law blameless. ⁷ But the things that were gain to me, those I have counted loss for Christ.

⁹ I know your distress and poverty, but you are rich, and I know the profane words from those who say that they are Jews though they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

¹ "To the Angel of the Church in Sardis write: "These things says he who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: "I know your deeds, that you have the name of being alive, but are dead.

⁹ See, I will make those from the synagogue of Satan, men who call themselves Jews when they are not but are lying — I will make them come and bow down before your feet and they shall know that I have loved you.