Romans 2:22

You who say that a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who detest idols, do you rob temples?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

In Context

21you, then, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?

23You who make your boast in the law, do you, by transgressing the law, dishonor God?

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Cross References

Matthew 16:4A wicked and adulterous generation seeks for a sign: and no sign shall be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet. And he left them and departed.

Acts 19:37For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples, nor revilers of 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 →

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