Romans 2:22

Romans chapter 2 · verse 22 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou rob temples?

King James Version · 1611

Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

American Standard Version · 1901

thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou rob temples?

v.21thou therefore that teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

v.22This passage

v.23thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonorest thou God?

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Jeremiah 9:2
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Malachi 3:8
Will a man rob God? yet ye rob me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
Matthew 16:4
An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of Jonah. And he left them, and departed.
Matthew 12:39
But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet:
Acts 19:37
For ye have brought hither these men, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of our goddess.
Mark 11:17
And he taught, and said unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? but ye have made it a den of robbers.