Romans 2:22
You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who hate idols, do you rob temples?
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In Context
21You who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?
23You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:7Why should I pardon these people? 1 Your sons have abandoned me and have made oaths by what are not gods. 1 I fed them fully, but they committed adultery and walked in great numbers to the houses of prostitutes. 1
Jeremiah 9:2If only someone would give me a place for travelers in the wilderness to stay, where I could go to abandon my people. 1 If only I could leave them, since all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors! 1
Malachi 1:8When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is that not evil? When you offer the lame and sick, is that not evil? Present that to your governor! Will he accept you or will he lift up your face?” says Yahweh of hosts.
Malachi 3:8Would a person rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.
Matthew 16:4An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” Then Jesus left them and went away.
Acts 19:37For you have brought these men to this court who 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 →