Romans 2:18

World English Bible (2000)

and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

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  • Deut 4:8 : 8 What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
  • Phil 1:10 : 10 so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;
  • 1 Thess 5:21 : 21 Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.
  • Jas 4:17 : 17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.
  • 2 Tim 3:15-17 : 15 From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. 16 Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
  • Heb 5:14 : 14 But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
  • Neh 9:13-14 : 13 "You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments, 14 and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, and statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,
  • Ps 19:8 : 8 Yahweh's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh's commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
  • Ps 119:98-99 : 98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
  • Ps 119:104-105 : 104 Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. NUN 105 Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
  • Ps 119:130 : 130 The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.
  • Ps 147:19-20 : 19 He shows his word to Jacob; his statutes and his ordinances to Israel. 20 He has not done this for just any nation. They don't know his ordinances. Praise Yah!
  • Prov 6:23 : 23 For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
  • Luke 12:47 : 47 That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
  • John 13:17 : 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
  • Rom 15:4 : 4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
  • 1 Cor 8:1-2 : 1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2 But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know.

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

    20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

  • Rom 2:17
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    17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,

  • Phil 1:9-11
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    9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

    10 so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;

    11 being filled with 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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    14 But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

    15 From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

  • Eph 5:10
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    10 proving 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 understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

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

  • Rom 2:1-3
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    1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

    2 We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

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

  • Luke 1:4
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    4 that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.

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

    14 (for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

    15 in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

  • Rom 2:23
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    23 You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?

  • Col 1:9-10
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    9 For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don't cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

    10 that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

  • Rom 14:18
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    18 For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

  • Rom 2:27-29
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    27 Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

    28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

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

  • 2 Tim 3:10
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    10 But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

  • 2 Tim 2:15
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    15 Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

  • Gal 4:9
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    9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

  • Phil 3:15
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    15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

  • Gal 4:21
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    21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law?

  • Phil 3:5-6
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    5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

    6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

  • Rom 7:22
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    22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man,

  • Rom 10:2
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    2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

  • Rom 15:14
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    14 I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

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

  • Acts 26:3
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    3 especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.

  • Phil 3:9
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    9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

  • Rom 7:7
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    7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

  • Prov 22:20
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    20 Haven't I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge,

  • Gal 2:16
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    16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

  • Rom 3:20
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    20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • 1 Cor 1:5
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    5 that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;

  • Rom 1:32
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    32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

  • Eph 4:20-21
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    20 But you did not learn Christ that way;

    21 if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

  • 1 Cor 8:2-3
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    2 But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know.

    3 But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

  • Eph 5:17
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    17 Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

  • Ps 94:12
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    12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law;