Romans 2:23

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name.

Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever.

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

“Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

that no flesh should boast before God.

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.

Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an itch. It is leprosy of the head or of the beard.

On the seventh day the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of the itch isn’t deeper than the skin,

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

The king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Don’t let him who puts on his armor brag like he who takes it off.’ ”

Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.

You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?’ ”

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—

The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!

Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh’s house!

you who stand in Yahweh’s house, in the courts of our God’s house.

The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.

Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—

who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

“But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble; for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.

For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”

They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.

If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke will judge him in the last day.

If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.

For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves. He was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;