Romans 2:20

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

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In The King James Version

An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

In Context

19Perhaps 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,

21Why, then, you teacher of others, don’t you teach yourself? Do you preach against stealing, and yet steal?

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Cross References

Matthew 11:25At that same time Jesus uttered the words, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that, though you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, you have revealed them to the childlike!

1 Corinthians 3:1But I, my friends, could not speak to you as people with spiritual insight, but only as worldly-minded – mere infants in the faith of Christ.

2 Timothy 3:5and while they retain the outward form of religion, they will not allow it to influence them. Turn your back on such people as these.

Hebrews 5:13For everyone who still has to take milk knows nothing of the teaching of righteousness; they are a mere infant.

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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