Romans 2:22

You who say, LO TINAF + 2:22 Ex 20:14 (Do not commit adultery!), do you commit adultery? You who abhor elilim (idols), do you rob pagan temples?

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 LO TIGNOV + 2:21 Ex 20:15 (Do not steal!), do you steal?

23You who boast + 2:23 Ro 4:2; Lk 17:10 in Torah, + 2:23 Ro 2:29; 3:20; Ga 2:15-21 through deviating from the Torah, you commit Chillul Hashem.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 5:7How shall I forgive thee for this? 1 Thy banim have forsaken Me, 1 and sworn by them that are no elohim; 1 when I had fed them to the full, 1 they then committed adultery, 1 and trooped to the bais zonah. 1

Jeremiah 9:2And they bend to the ready their leshon like their keshet (bow) for sheker; 1 but not for emunah have they prevailed in ha'aretz; 1 for they proceed from ra'ah to ra'ah, 1 and they know not Me, saith Hashem. 1

Malachi 1:8And when ye offer the blind animal for sacrifice, 1 is it not rah? 1 And when ye offer the lame and diseased, 1 is it not rah? 1 Offer it now unto thy governor; 1 will he be pleased with thee, 1 or receive thee? 1 saith Hashem Tzva'os. 1

Malachi 3:8Will a man rob G-d? 1 Yet ye have robbed Me. 1 But ye say: Wherein have we robbed Thee? 1 In ma'aser (tithes) and terumah (offerings, contributions). + 3:8 Ex 20:15 1

Matthew 16:4A dor rah umnaef (an evil and adulterous generation) demands an ot (sign), and no ot will be given it except the ot of Yonah HaNavi. And having left them, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went away.

Acts 19:37For you brought these anashim here who are neither temple robbers nor speakers of evil against our religion.

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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