Romans 2:21

So if you're busy teaching others, why don't you teach yourself? You tell people not to steal, but are you stealing?

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In The King James Version

Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

In Context

20You think you can set ignorant people straight, a teacher of “children,” because you know from the law all the truth there is to know.

22You tell people not to commit adultery, but are you committing adultery? You tell people not to worship idols, but do you profane temples?

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Cross References

Psalms 50:16But to the wicked God says, “What's the point of mechanically repeating my laws or making empty promises about obeying the agreement?

Isaiah 56:11They're greedy dogs that are never satisfied. They're sheepdogs who don't know their job. All of them go their own way, each of them looking out for themselves.

Ezekiel 22:27Her city officials are like wolves ripping up their prey, killing people, destroying lives so they can profit through fraud.

Micah 3:11Your leaders judge for a bribe, and your priests teach for a price, and your prophets only prophesy for pay. Yet they all lean on the Lord saying, “Isn't the Lord here with us? Nothing bad can happen to us!”

Matthew 23:3so obey them and do everything they tell you. But don't follow what they do, because they don't practice what they preach.

Luke 11:46Jesus replied, “Shame on you lawyers too! You place burdens on people that are too hard to carry, but you don't lift a finger to help them.

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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