Romans 2:21
Why, then, you teacher of others, don’t you teach yourself? Do you preach against stealing, and yet steal?
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
In Context
22Do you forbid adultery, and yet commit adultery? Do you loathe idols, and yet plunder temples?
Cross References
Psalms 50:16But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to talk of my statutes, or take my covenant into your mouth
Micah 3:11“The leaders render judgment for a bribe, and her priests give oracles for a reward, and her prophets divine for silver. Yet they claim to rely on the Lord, ‘The Lord’, they say, ‘is in our midst. Evil cannot overtake us.’
Matthew 23:3Therefore practice and lay to heart everything that they preach but do not practice.
Luke 11:46But Jesus went on, “Alas for you, too, you students of the Law! You load people with loads that are too heavy to carry, but do not, yourselves, touch them with one of your fingers.
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 →