Romans 2:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

and know his will and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law,

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  • Deut 4:8 : 8 And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this whole law that I am about to share with you today?
  • Phil 1:10 : 10 so that you can decide what is best, and thus be sincere and blameless for the day of Christ,
  • 1 Thess 5:21 : 21 But examine all things; hold fast to what is good.
  • Jas 4:17 : 17 So whoever knows what is good to do and does not do it is guilty of sin.
  • 2 Tim 3:15-17 : 15 and how from infancy you have known the holy writings, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the person dedicated to God may be capable and equipped for every good work.
  • Heb 5:14 : 14 But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.
  • Neh 9:13-14 : 13 “You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You provided them with just judgments, true laws, and good statutes and commandments. 14 You made known to them your holy Sabbath; you issued commandments, statutes, and law to them through Moses your servant.
  • Ps 19:8 : 8 The LORD’s precepts are fair and make one joyful. The LORD’s commands are pure and give insight for life.
  • Ps 119:98-99 : 98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for I am always aware of them. 99 I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your rules. 100 I am more discerning than those older than I, for I observe your precepts.
  • Ps 119:104-105 : 104 Your precepts give me discernment. Therefore I hate all deceitful actions. 105 נ(Nun) Your word is a lamp to walk by, and a light to illumine my path.
  • Ps 119:130 : 130 Your instructions are a doorway through which light shines. They give insight to the untrained.
  • Ps 147:19-20 : 19 He proclaims his word to Jacob, his statutes and regulations to Israel. 20 He has not done so with any other nation; they are not aware of his regulations. Praise the LORD!
  • Prov 6:23 : 23 For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life,
  • Luke 12:47 : 47 That servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating.
  • John 13:17 : 17 If you understand these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
  • Rom 15:4 : 4 For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.
  • 1 Cor 8:1-2 : 1 Food Sacrificed to Idols With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that“we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2 If someone thinks he knows something, he does not yet know to the degree that he needs to know.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 2:19-20
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    19and if you are convinced that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

    20an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth–

  • Rom 2:17
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    17The Condemnation of the Jew But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

  • Phil 1:9-11
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    9And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight

    10so that you can decide what is best, and thus be sincere 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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    14You, however, must continue in the things you have learned and are confident about. You know who taught you

    15and how from infancy you have known the holy writings, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

  • Eph 5:10
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    10trying to learn what is 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 the things they insist on so confidently.

    8But we know that the law is good if someone uses it legitimately,

  • Rom 2:1-3
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    1The Condemnation of the Moralist Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge someone else. For on whatever grounds you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.

    2Now we know that God’s judgment is in accordance with truth against those who practice such things.

    3And do you think, whoever you are, when you judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape God’s judgment?

  • Luke 1:4
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    4so that you may know for certain the things you were taught.

  • Rom 2:13-15
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    13For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

    14For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

    15They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend them,

  • Rom 2:23
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    23You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

  • Col 1:9-10
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    9Paul’s Prayer for the Growth of the Church For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

    10so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects– bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,

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

  • Rom 2:27-29
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    27The physically uncircumcised man, by keeping the law, will judge you to be the transgressor of the law, even though you have the letter and circumcision!

    28For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,

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

  • 2 Tim 3:10
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    10Continue in What You Have Learned You, however, have followed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,

  • 2 Tim 2:15
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    15Make every effort to present yourself before God as a proven worker who does not need to be ashamed, teaching the message of truth accurately.

  • Gal 4:9
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    9But now that you have come to know God(or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

  • Phil 3:15
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    15Therefore let those of us who are“perfect” embrace this point of view. If you think otherwise, God will reveal to you the error of your ways.

  • Gal 4:21
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    21An Appeal from Allegory Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?

  • Phil 3:5-6
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    5I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the people of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. I lived according to the law as a Pharisee.

    6In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.

  • Rom 7:22
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    22For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

  • Rom 10:2
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    2For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not in line with the truth.

  • Rom 15:14
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    14Paul’s Motivation for Writing the Letter But I myself am fully convinced about you, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

  • Prov 2:9
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    9Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity– every good way.

  • Acts 26:3
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    3because you are especially familiar with all the customs and controversial issues of the Jews. Therefore I ask you to listen to me patiently.

  • Phil 3:9
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    9and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness– a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness.

  • Rom 7:7
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    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said,“Do not covet.”

  • Prov 22:20
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    20Have I not written thirty sayings for you, sayings of counsel and knowledge,

  • Gal 2:16
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    16yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

  • Rom 3:20
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    20For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • 1 Cor 1:5
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    5For you were made rich in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge–

  • Rom 1:32
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    32Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.

  • Eph 4:20-21
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    20But you did not learn about Christ like this,

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

  • 1 Cor 8:2-3
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    2If someone thinks he knows something, he does not yet know to the degree that he needs to know.

    3But if someone loves God, he is known by God.

  • Eph 5:17
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    17For this reason do not be foolish, but be wise by understanding what the Lord’s will is.

  • Ps 94:12
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    12How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O LORD, the one whom you teach from your law,