Romans 2:22
Thou who say not to commit adultery, do thou commit adultery? Thou who abhor idols, do thou rob temples?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
23Thou who boast in law, dishonor God by thy transgression of the law.
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:7How can I pardon thee? Thy sons have forsaken me, and sworn by those who are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses.
Jeremiah 9:2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Malachi 1:8And when ye offer the blind for sacrifice, [ye say,] It is no evil! and when ye offer the lame and sick, It is no evil! Present it now to thy governor. Will he be pleased with thee, or will he accept thy person? says LORD of hosts.
Malachi 3:8Will a man rob God? Yet ye rob me. But ye say, How have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
Matthew 16:4An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet. And having left them behind, he departed.
Acts 19:37For ye brought these men, who are neither sacrilegious nor blaspheming your goddess.
Matthew Henry on Romans 2:18-29
The Pretensions of the Jews; The Depravity of the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, 18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; 19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, 20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. 21 Thou therefore which teachest… Read the whole commentary →