Romans 2:22

Do you forbid adultery, and yet commit adultery? Do you loathe idols, and yet plunder temples?

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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

21Why, then, you teacher of others, don’t you teach yourself? Do you preach against stealing, and yet steal?

23Boasting, as you do, of your Law, do you dishonor God by breaking the Law?

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Cross References

Malachi 1:8When you offer the blind animal for sacrifice, ‘It doesn’t matter!’ And when you offer the lame and the sick ‘It doesn’t matter!’ Give an animal like that to your governor; will he be pleased with it? Will he receive you favorably?” says the Lord of hosts.

Malachi 3:8Can a human rob God? Yet you robbed me. You ask, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and gifts!

Matthew 16:4A wicked and unfaithful generation is asking for a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” So he left them and went away.

Acts 19:37for you have brought these men here, though they are neither robbers of Temples nor blasphemers of our 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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