Romans 2:19

and trustest thyself to be a leader of blind men, the light of them that be in darknesses (or the light for those who be 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 hast known his will, and thou learned by the law (ap)provest [or hast proved] the more profitable things,

20a teacher of unwise men, a master of young children (or a teacher of young children), that hast the form of cunning, (or of knowing), [or of science], (or of knowledge), and of (the) truth in the law;

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Cross References

Isaiah 5:21Woe to you that be wise men in your eyes, and be prudent before yourselves. (Woe to you who be wise in your own eyes, and think yourselves to be prudent.)

Isaiah 49:9that thou shouldest say to them that be bound, Go ye out, and to them that be in darknesses, Be ye showed. They shall be fed in ways, and the pastures of them shall be in all plain things. (and that thou shouldest say to them who be bound, Go ye out, and to them who be in darkness, Be ye seen. They shall be fed on the ways, and their pastures shall be on all the hills.)

Matthew 4:16the people that walked [or that dwelt] in darknesses saw (a) great light (or the people who lived in darkness saw a great light), and while men sat in the country of [the] shadow of death, light arose to them.

Matthew 6:23but if thine eye be wayward, all thy body shall be dark [-full]. If then the light that is in thee be darknesses, how great shall those darknesses be?

Matthew 23:16Woe to you, blind leaders, that say, Whoever sweareth by the temple of God, it is nothing; but he that sweareth in the gold of the temple (or but he who sweareth by the gold of the Temple), is (a) debtor [or oweth].

Luke 1:79To give light to them that sit in darknesses, and in the shadow of death; to (ad)dress our feet into the way of peace. (To give light to those who sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death; 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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