Romans 2:18

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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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 2:19-20
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    81%

    19and are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness,

    20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the form of knowledge and truth—

  • Rom 2:17
    79%

    17Now you, if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the law and boast in God,

  • Phil 1:9-11
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    76%

    9And this is my prayer, that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight.

    10So that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ.

    11Filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

  • 2 Tim 3:14-15
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    73%

    14But you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you have learned it.

    15And from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

  • Eph 5:10
    72%

    10Prove what is well-pleasing to the Lord.

  • 1 Tim 1:7-8
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    7They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or what they so confidently affirm.

    8Now we know that the law is good if one uses it properly.

  • Rom 2:1-3
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    71%

    1Therefore, you have no excuse, O person, whoever you are who judges. For when you judge someone else, you condemn yourself, because you practice the same things you judge others for.

    2We know that God's judgment is based on truth against those who practice such things.

    3Do you think this, O person who judges those who practice such things, yet does the same yourself, that you will escape God’s judgment?

  • Luke 1:4
    71%

    4so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.

  • Rom 2:13-15
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    13For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be justified.

    14For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things required by the law, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

    15They demonstrate the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts alternately accusing or even defending them.

  • Rom 2:23
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    23You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

  • Col 1:9-10
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    9For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of His will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,

    10so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,

  • Rom 14:18
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    18For anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by people.

  • Rom 2:27-29
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    27The one who is not physically circumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.

    28For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.

    29But a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. Such a person’s praise is not from people, but from God.

  • 2 Tim 3:10
    69%

    10But you have closely followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, and endurance.

  • 2 Tim 2:15
    69%

    15Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

  • Gal 4:9
    69%

    9But now, having come to know God—or rather, having been known by God—how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles, whose slaves you want to be once more?

  • Phil 3:15
    69%

    15Let all of us who are mature think this way. And if in anything you think differently, that too God will reveal to you.

  • Gal 4:21
    69%

    21Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?

  • Phil 3:5-6
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    5Circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;

    6as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.

  • Rom 7:22
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    22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;

  • Rom 10:2
    68%

    2I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but it is not based on true knowledge.

  • Rom 15:14
    68%

    14I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

  • Prov 2:9
    68%

    9Then you will understand righteousness, justice, and integrity—the entire good path.

  • Acts 26:3
    68%

    3Especially because you are so familiar with all the customs and controversies among the Jews. I therefore ask you to listen to me patiently.

  • Phil 3:9
    68%

    9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.

  • Rom 7:7
    68%

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, 'You shall not covet.'

  • Prov 22:20
    68%

    20Have I not written for you thirty sayings of counsel and knowledge?

  • Gal 2:16
    68%

    16yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. So we also have believed in Christ Jesus in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

  • Rom 3:20
    68%

    20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • 1 Cor 1:5
    67%

    5That in every way you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge,

  • Rom 1:32
    67%

    32Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things but also approve of those who practice them.

  • Eph 4:20-21
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    67%

    20But that is not the way you learned Christ,

    21if indeed you have heard him and were taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus.

  • 1 Cor 8:2-3
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    2If anyone thinks they know something, they do not yet know as they ought to know.

    3But if anyone loves God, they are known by Him.

  • Eph 5:17
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    17Because of this, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

  • Ps 94:12
    67%

    12Blessed is the one you discipline, LORD, the one you teach from Your law.