Romans 2:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, who have the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

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  • 2 Tim 3:5 : 5 Having a form of godliness but denying its power. From such turn away.
  • Titus 1:16 : 16 They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.
  • 2 Tim 1:13 : 13 Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.
  • Rom 6:17 : 17 But God be thanked that though you were servants of sin, you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.
  • 1 Cor 3:1 : 1 And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, even as to infants in Christ.
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to babes.
  • Heb 5:13 : 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 As newborn babies, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 2:17-19
    3 verses
    85%

    17Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God,

    18And know His will, and approve the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

    19And are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

  • Rom 2:21-23
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    21You therefore who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?

    22You who say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?

    23You who make your boast of the law, through breaking the law do you dishonor God?

  • 1 Tim 1:6-8
    3 verses
    76%

    6From which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk,

    7Desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor what they affirm.

    8But we know that the law is good if a man uses it lawfully;

  • 2 Tim 3:6-7
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    72%

    6For of this sort are those who creep into households and lead captive gullible women loaded with sins, led away by various lusts,

    7Always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

  • 2 Tim 3:14-15
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    14But continue in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them;

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

  • Heb 5:12-13
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    71%

    12For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God; you have come to need milk and not solid food.

    13For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

  • Isa 28:9
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    9Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

  • 2 Tim 2:25
    69%

    25in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth,

  • 2 Tim 2:14-16
    3 verses
    69%

    14Remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord not to argue about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers.

    15Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

    16But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness.

  • Eph 4:20-21
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    20But you have not so learned Christ,

    21If indeed you have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:

  • Rom 2:1-3
    3 verses
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    1Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are that judges: for in what you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge do the same things.

    2But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who commit such things.

    3And do you think this, O man, who judges those who do such things, and do the same, that you shall escape the judgment of God?

  • 1 Tim 6:3-4
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    3If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness;

    4He is proud, knowing nothing, but obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,

  • Prov 22:20
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    20Have I not written to you excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

  • 1 Tim 4:6
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    6If you remind the brethren of these things, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of good doctrine, to which you have attained.

  • Prov 4:2
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    2For I give you good teaching, do not forsake my law.

  • Titus 2:7
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    7In all things showing yourself a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, dignity, sincerity,

  • Prov 26:4-5
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    4Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

    5Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

  • 2 Tim 3:10
    67%

    10But you have fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,

  • 1 Cor 14:20
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    20Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be infants, but in understanding be mature.

  • Mal 2:8
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    8But you have turned out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts.

  • Prov 6:23
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    23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

  • 2 Cor 11:19
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    19For you gladly bear with fools, seeing that you yourselves are wise.

  • Prov 9:9
    67%

    9Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be even wiser: teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

  • 1 Cor 3:18
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    18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

  • Prov 16:22
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    22Understanding is a wellspring of life to him who has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.

  • Job 4:3
    67%

    3Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6And these things, brothers, I have applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, so that none of you be puffed up for one against another.

  • Titus 2:1
    66%

    1But speak the things that are fitting for sound doctrine:

  • Titus 3:11
    66%

    11Knowing that such a person is warped and sinful, being self-condemned.

  • Gal 3:1
    66%

    1O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been clearly set forth, crucified among you?

  • Eph 4:14
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    14That we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive;

  • Titus 1:10-11
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    66%

    10For there are many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

    11Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.

  • Rom 2:27
    66%

    27And shall not the uncircumcised which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who by the letter and circumcision transgress the law?