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Romans 2:19

you become confident within yourself that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

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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 you have known his will, and you demonstrate the more useful things, having been instructed by the law:

20an instructor to the foolish, a teacher to children, because you have a type of knowledge and truth in the law.

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Cross References

Isaiah 5:21Woe to you who are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own sight!

Isaiah 49:9so that you would say to those who are bound, “Go forth!” and to those who are in darkness, “Be released!” They will pasture along the roads, and their pastures will be in every open place.

Matthew 4:16A people who were sitting in darkness have seen a great light. And unto those sitting in the region of the shadow of death, a light has risen.”

Matthew 6:23But if your eye has been corrupted, your entire body will be darkened. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great will that darkness be!

Matthew 23:16Woe to you, blind guides, who say: ‘Whoever will have sworn by the temple, it is nothing. But whoever will have sworn by the gold of the temple is obligated.’

Luke 1:79to illuminate those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, and to direct our feet in 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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