Verse 18

and know His will and approve things that are excellent, being instructed from the law,

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  • Deut 4:8 : 8 And what great nation has righteous statutes and judgments like this entire law that I am setting before you today?
  • Phil 1:10 : 10 So that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ.
  • 1 Thess 5:21 : 21 Test all things. Hold fast to what is good.
  • Jas 4:17 : 17 So, if anyone knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
  • 2 Tim 3:15-17 : 15 And from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
  • Heb 5:14 : 14 But solid food is for the mature, those who through practice have trained their senses to discern good from evil.
  • Neh 9:13-14 : 13 You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke to them from heaven. You gave them upright judgments, true laws, good statutes, and commandments. 14 You made Your holy Sabbath known to them, and You gave them commandments, statutes, and laws through Your servant Moses.
  • Ps 19:8 : 8 The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
  • Ps 119:98-99 : 98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the elders, because I keep Your precepts.
  • Ps 119:104-105 : 104 Through Your precepts I gain understanding; therefore, I hate every false way. 105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
  • Ps 119:130 : 130 The unfolding of Your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.
  • Ps 147:19-20 : 19 He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel. 20 He has not done this for any other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!
  • Prov 6:23 : 23 For the commandment is a lamp, the teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life.
  • Luke 12:47 : 47 That servant who knew his master’s will and did not prepare or act according to his will, will be beaten with many blows.
  • John 13:17 : 17 If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.
  • Rom 15:4 : 4 For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
  • 1 Cor 8:1-2 : 1 Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2 If anyone thinks they know something, they do not yet know as they ought to know.