Romans 2:21

Why, then, you teacher of others, do not you teach yourself? Do you preach against stealing, and yet steal?

Twentieth Century New Testament

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

20and a teacher of the childish, because in the Law you possess the outline of all Knowledge and Truth.

22Do you forbid adultery, and yet commit adultery? Do you loathe idols, and yet plunder temples?

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Cross References

Matthew 23:3Therefore practice and lay to heart everything that they tell preach but do not practice.

Luke 11:46But Jesus went on: “Alas for you, too, you Students of the Law! You load men 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 →

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