Romans 2:22

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

Twentieth Century New Testament

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, do not you teach yourself? Do you preach against stealing, and yet steal?

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

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Cross References

Matthew 16:4A wicked and unfaithful generation is asking for a sign, but no sign shall 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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