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Romans 2:19
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Romans 2:19
19And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
19And art confident that thou thy selfe art a guide of the blinde, a light of them which are in darkenesse:
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Romans 2:19
Assured, bold, or free from doubt.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616
A person who leads or directs another in his way or course; a conductor. To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Unable to see; lacking understanding; as a verb, to deprive of sight or discernment.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Visible brightness; something that gives illumination; not heavy; to kindle, illuminate, or come down upon, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Absence of light; also obscurity, ignorance, distress, or moral evil by figure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study17Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
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Open the full verse study10We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
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Open the full verse study1NOW as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
2And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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Open the full verse study6And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
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Open the full verse study21Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
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Open the full verse study10His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
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Open the full verse study34They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
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Open the full verse study40And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
41Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
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Open the full verse study14Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
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Open the full verse study14Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
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Open the full verse study23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
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Open the full verse study12Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
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Open the full verse study18Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
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Open the full verse study18To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
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Open the full verse study9That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
10They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
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Open the full verse study46The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.
47Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?
48Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?
49But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
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Open the full verse study79To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
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Open the full verse study15Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.
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Open the full verse study16Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
17Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
18And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
19Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
20Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
21And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
22And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
23Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
24Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
25Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
26Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
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Open the full verse study16The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
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Open the full verse study15That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
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