Romans 2:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Tim 3:5 : 5 They will maintain the outward appearance of religion but will have repudiated its power. So avoid people like these.
  • Titus 1:16 : 16 They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
  • 2 Tim 1:13 : 13 Hold to the standard of sound words that you heard from me and do so with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
  • Rom 6:17 : 17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to,
  • 1 Cor 3:1 : 1 Immaturity and Self-deception So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 Jesus’ Invitation At that time Jesus said,“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to little children.
  • Heb 5:13 : 13 For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 2:17-19
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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

    18and know his will and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law,

    19and if you are convinced that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

  • Rom 2:21-23
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    21therefore you who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

    22You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

    23You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

  • 1 Tim 1:6-8
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    6Some have strayed from these and turned away to empty discussion.

    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,

  • 2 Tim 3:6-7
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    6For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.

    7Such women are always seeking instruction, yet never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

  • 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.

  • Heb 5:12-13
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    12For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God’s utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.

    13For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.

  • Isa 28:9
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    9Who is the LORD trying to teach? To whom is he explaining a message? Those just weaned from milk! Those just taken from their mother’s breast!

  • 2 Tim 2:25
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    25correcting opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance and then knowledge of the truth

  • 2 Tim 2:14-16
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    14Dealing with False Teachers Remind people of these things and solemnly charge them before the Lord not to wrangle over words. This is of no benefit; it just brings ruin on those who listen.

    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.

    16But avoid profane chatter, because those occupied with it will stray further and further into ungodliness,

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 1 Tim 6:3-4
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    3If someone spreads false teachings and does not agree with sound words(that is, those of our Lord Jesus Christ) and with the teaching that accords with godliness,

    4he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions,

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

  • 1 Tim 4:6
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    6By pointing out such things to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, having nourished yourself on the words of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed.

  • Prov 4:2
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    2Because I hereby give you good instruction, do not forsake my teaching.

  • Titus 2:7
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    7showing yourself to be an example of good works in every way. In your teaching show integrity, dignity,

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

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

  • 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,

  • 1 Cor 14:20
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    20Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

  • Mal 2:8
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    8You, however, have turned from the way. You have caused many to violate the law; you have corrupted the covenant with Levi,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

  • Prov 6:23
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    23For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life,

  • 2 Cor 11:19
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    19For since you are so wise, you put up with fools gladly.

  • Prov 9:9
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    9Give instruction to a wise person, and he will become wiser still; teach a righteous person and he will add to his learning.

  • 1 Cor 3:18
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    18Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.

  • Prov 16:22
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    22Insight is like a life-giving fountain to the one who possesses it, but folly leads to the discipline of fools.

  • Job 4:3
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    3Look, you have instructed many; you have strengthened feeble hands.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, so that through us you may learn“not to go beyond what is written,” so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.

  • Titus 2:1
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    1Conduct Consistent with Sound Teaching But as for you, communicate the behavior that goes with sound teaching.

  • Titus 3:11
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    11You know that such a person is twisted by sin and is conscious of it himself.

  • Gal 3:1
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    1Justification by Law or by Faith? You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified!

  • Eph 4:14
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    14So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

  • Titus 1:10-11
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    10For there are many rebellious people, idle talkers, and deceivers, especially those with Jewish connections,

    11who must be silenced because they mislead whole families by teaching for dishonest gain what ought not to be taught.

  • Rom 2:27
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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!