Romans 2:20 Parallel Translations

an instructor of ignorant people, and a teacher of children because you have the full content of knowledge and truth in Moses' Teachings.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

ASV:

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;

BBE:

A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true;

DBY:

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law:

ERV:

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;

WEY:

a schoolmaster for the dull and ignorant, a teacher of the young, because in the Law you possess an outline of real knowledge and an outline of the truth:

WBS:

An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, who hast the form of knowledge, and of the truth in the law:

WEB:

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

YLT:

an instructor of foolish ones, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the law.

Romans 2:20 Cross References

XREF:

Romans 3:31 Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law.

2 Timothy 1:13 Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

2:20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the {o} form of knowledge and of the truth in the {p} law.
(o) The way to teach and to form others in the knowledge of the truth.
(p) As though he said that the Jews under a pretence of an outward serving of God, attributed all to themselves, when in reality they did nothing less than observe the Law.

PNT:

2:20 Which hast the form of knowledge. In the law they had the form, the pattern, of knowledge and of the truth. The truth in its fullness came with Jesus Christ (Joh 1:17), but the law was the pattern, the typical form, of this truth.

WES:

2:20 Having the form of knowledge and truth - That is, the most accurate knowledge of the truth.

MHC:

2:17-24 The apostle directs his discourse to the Jews, and shows of what sins they were guilty, notwithstanding their profession and vain pretensions. A believing, humble, thankful glorying in God, is the root and sum of all religion. But proud, vain-glorious boasting in God, and in the outward profession of his name, is the root and sum of all hypocrisy. Spiritual pride is the most dangerous of all kinds of pride. A great evil of the sins professors is, the dishonour done to God and religion, by their not living according to their profession. Many despise their more ignorant neighbours who rest in a dead form of godliness; yet themselves trust in a form of knowledge, equally void of life and power, while some glory in the gospel, whose unholy lives dishonour God, and cause his name to be blasphemed.

CONC:

Babes Babies Corrector Dull Embodiment Foolish Form Hast Ignorant Immature Infants Instructor Law Ones Outline Possess Real Schoolmaster Teacher Truth

Babes Babies Children Dull Foolish Form Ignorant Infants Instructor Law Ones Outline Possess Real Schoolmaster Teacher True. Truth Young

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