19 if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— 21 you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?
Romans 2:19–21
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Romans 2:2–4
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Matthew 23:23–25
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2 Esdras 4:19–21
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Galatians 4:20–22
20 how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you. 21 Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the…
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Romans 2:26–28
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Acts 7:52–54
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Job 33:32–33
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