Romans 2:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Romans 2:18

And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

Knowest

James 4:17

Approvest the things that are more excellent

Philippians 1:10

Hebrews 5:14

Being instructed

2 Timothy 3:15

Bible References

Knowest

And what [other] great nation has for it just rules and regulations just like {this whole} law that I [am] setting {before} you {today}?

Then you came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right judgments and true teachings, good regulations and commandments.

[He] declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

And that slave who knew the will of his master and did not prepare or do according to his will {will be given a severe beating}.

If you understand these [things], you are blessed if you do them.

Now concerning food sacrificed to idols, we know that "we all have knowledge." Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

Therefore, to the one who knows to do good and does not do [it], to him it is sin.

Approvest the things that are more excellent

so that you may approve what is superior, in order that you may be sincere and blameless in the day of Christ,

But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have trained their faculties for the distinguishing of both good and evil.

Being instructed

For whatever was written beforehand was written for our instruction, in order that through patient endurance and through the encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

The precepts of Yahweh [are] right, making [the] heart rejoice. The command of Yahweh [is] pure, enlightening [the] eyes.

Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, because they [are] ever with me.

For [like] a lamp [is] a commandment, and instruction [is] light, and the way of life [is the] reproof of discipline,

and that from childhood you have known the holy writings that are able [to make] you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.