Romans 2:19

In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,

In Context

18And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law,

20A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true;

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Cross References

Isaiah 5:21Cursed are those who seem wise to themselves, and who take pride in their knowledge!

Isaiah 49:9Saying to those who are in chains, Go free; to those who are in the dark, Come out into the light. They will get food by the way wherever they go, and have grass-lands on all the dry mountain-tops.

Matthew 4:16The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.

Matthew 6:23But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!

Matthew 23:16A curse is on you, blind guides, who say, Whoever takes an oath by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the gold of the Temple, he is responsible.

Luke 1:79To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.

Matthew Henry on Romans 2:18-29

The Pretensions of the Jews; The Depravity of the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, 18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; 19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, 20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. 21 Thou therefore which teachest… Read the whole commentary →

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