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Romans 2:19

and have persuaded yourself that, as for you, you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

Weymouth NT (1912)

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 know the supreme will, and can test things that differ--being a man who receives instruction from the Law--

20a schoolmaster for the dull and ignorant, a teacher of the young, because in the Law you possess an outline of real knowledge and an outline of the truth:

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Cross References

Matthew 4:16The people who were dwelling in darkness have seen a brilliant light; and on those who were dwelling in the region of the shadow of death, on them light has dawned."

Matthew 6:23but if your eyesight is bad, your whole body will be dark. If however the very light within you is darkness, how dense must the darkness be!

Matthew 23:16"Alas for you, you blind guides, who say, "`Whoever swears by the Sanctuary it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the Sanctuary, is bound by the oath.'

Luke 1:79Dawning on those who now dwell in the darkness and shadow of death--To direct our feet into the path 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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