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Romans 2:20

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

World Messianic Bible British

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

19and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

21You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who proclaim that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

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Cross References

Matthew 11:25At that time, Yeshua answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

1 Corinthians 3:1Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Messiah.

2 Timothy 3:5holding a form of godliness but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

Hebrews 5:13For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

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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