Romans 2:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law,

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  • Deut 4:8 : 8 And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?
  • Phil 1:10 : 10 So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;
  • 1 Thess 5:21 : 21 Let all things be tested; keep to what is good;
  • Jas 4:17 : 17 The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
  • 2 Tim 3:15-17 : 15 And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness: 17 So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.
  • Heb 5:14 : 14 But solid food is for men of full growth, even for those whose senses are trained by use to see what is good and what is evil.
  • Neh 9:13-14 : 13 And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders: 14 And you gave them word of your holy Sabbath, and gave them orders and rules and a law, by the hand of Moses your servant:
  • Ps 19:8 : 8 The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.
  • Ps 119:98-99 : 98 Your teaching has made me wiser than my haters: for it is mine for ever. 99 I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word. 100 I have more wisdom than the old, because I have kept your orders.
  • Ps 119:104-105 : 104 Through your orders I get wisdom; for this reason I am a hater of every false way. 105 <NUN> Your word is a light for my feet, ever shining on my way.
  • Ps 119:130 : 130 The opening of your words gives light; it gives good sense to the simple.
  • Ps 147:19-20 : 19 He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions. 20 He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.
  • Prov 6:23 : 23 For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.
  • Luke 12:47 : 47 And the servant who had knowledge of his lord's desires and was not ready for him and did not do as he was ordered, will be given a great number of blows;
  • John 13:17 : 17 If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.
  • Rom 15:4 : 4 Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.
  • 1 Cor 8:1-2 : 1 Now about things offered to images: we all seem to ourselves to have knowledge. Knowledge gives pride, but love gives true strength. 2 If anyone seems to himself to have knowledge, so far he has not the right sort of knowledge about anything;

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  • Rom 2:19-20
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    81%

    19 In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,

    20 A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true;

  • Rom 2:17
    79%

    17 But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God,

  • Phil 1:9-11
    3 verses
    76%

    9 And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience;

    10 So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;

    11 Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

  • 2 Tim 3:14-15
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    73%

    14 But see that you keep to the teaching you have been given and the things of which you are certain, conscious of who has been your teacher;

    15 And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.

  • Eph 5:10
    72%

    10 Testing by experience what is well-pleasing to the Lord;

  • 1 Tim 1:7-8
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    7 Desiring to be teachers of the law, though they have no knowledge of what they say or of the statements which they make so certainly.

    8 We are conscious that the law is good, if a man makes a right use of it,

  • Rom 2:1-3
    3 verses
    71%

    1 So you have no reason, whoever you are, for judging: for in judging another you are judging yourself, for you do the same things.

    2 And we are conscious that God is a true judge against those who do such things.

    3 But you who are judging another for doing what you do yourself, are you hoping that God's decision will not take effect against you?

  • Luke 1:4
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    4 So that you might have certain knowledge of those things about which you were given teaching.

  • Rom 2:13-15
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    71%

    13 For it is not the hearers of the law who will be judged as having righteousness before God, but only the doers:

    14 For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;

    15 Because the work of the law is seen in their hearts, their sense of right and wrong giving witness to it, while their minds are at one time judging them and at another giving them approval;

  • Rom 2:23
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    23 You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?

  • Col 1:9-10
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    70%

    9 For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit,

    10 Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

  • Rom 14:18
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    18 And he who in these things is Christ's servant, is pleasing to God and has the approval of men.

  • Rom 2:27-29
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    27 And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.

    28 The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:

    29 But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

  • 2 Tim 3:10
    69%

    10 But you took as your example my teaching, behaviour, purpose, and faith; my long waiting, my love, my quiet undergoing of trouble;

  • 2 Tim 2:15
    69%

    15 Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.

  • Gal 4:9
    69%

    9 But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

  • Phil 3:15
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    15 Then let us all, who have come to full growth, be of this mind: and if in anything you are of a different mind, even this will God make clear to you:

  • Gal 4:21
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    21 Say, you whose desire it is to be under the law, do you not give ear to the law?

  • Phil 3:5-6
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    69%

    5 Being given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in relation to the law, a Pharisee:

    6 In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

  • Rom 7:22
    69%

    22 In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,

  • Rom 10:2
    68%

    2 For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.

  • Rom 15:14
    68%

    14 And I myself am certain of you, brothers, that you are full of what is good, complete in all knowledge, able to give direction to one another.

  • Prov 2:9
    68%

    9 Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.

  • Acts 26:3
    68%

    3 The more so, because you are expert in all questions to do with the Jews and their ways: so I make my request to you to give me a hearing to the end.

  • Phil 3:9
    68%

    9 And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

  • Rom 7:7
    68%

    7 What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

  • Prov 22:20
    68%

    20 Have I not put in writing for you thirty sayings, with wise suggestions and knowledge,

  • Gal 2:16
    68%

    16 Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.

  • Rom 3:20
    68%

    20 Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • 1 Cor 1:5
    67%

    5 So that in him you have wealth in all things, in word and in knowledge of every sort;

  • Rom 1:32
    67%

    32 Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.

  • Eph 4:20-21
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    67%

    20 For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;

    21 If in fact you gave ear to him, and were given teaching in him, even as what is true is made clear in Jesus:

  • 1 Cor 8:2-3
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    2 If anyone seems to himself to have knowledge, so far he has not the right sort of knowledge about anything;

    3 But if anyone has love for God, God has knowledge of him.

  • Eph 5:17
    67%

    17 For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.

  • Ps 94:12
    67%

    12 Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;