Romans 2:19

Perhaps you are confident that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in the dark, an instructor of the unintelligent,

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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, having been carefully instructed from the Law, have learned to appreciate the finer moral distinctions.

20and a teacher of the childish, because in the Law you possess the outline of all knowledge and truth.

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Cross References

Matthew 4:16The people who were living in darkness have seen a great light, and, for those who were living in the shadow-land of death, a light has dawned!’

Matthew 6:23but, if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be darkened. And, if the inner light is darkness, how intense must that darkness be!

Matthew 23:16Alas for you, you blind guides! You say ‘if any swear by the Temple, their oath counts for nothing; but, if anyone swears by the gold of the Temple, their oath is binding them’!

Luke 1:79to give light to those who live in darkness and the shadow of death, and guide our feet 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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