Romans 2:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² You who say not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery [are you unchaste in action or in thought]? You who abhor and loathe idols, do you rob temples [do you appropriate to your own use what is consecrated to God, thus robbing the sanctuary and doing sacrilege]?

American Standard Version (1901)

²² thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou rob temples?

Common English Bible

²² If you say, “No adultery,” do you commit adultery? If you hate idols, do you rob temples?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² You speak against adultery, but you commit adultery. You abominate idols, but you commit sacrilege.

Romans 2:22 Cross References

Malachi 3:8

Will anyone rob God? Yet you are robbing me! But you say, “How are we robbing you?” In your tithes and offerings!

Matthew 12:39

But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

James 4:4

Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

Acts 19:37

You have brought these men here who are neither temple robbers nor blasphemers of our goddess.

Mark 11:17

He was teaching and saying, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”

Matthew 16:4

An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” Then he left them and went away.

Malachi 1:14

Cursed be the cheat who has a male in the flock and vows to give it and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished, for I am a great King, says the Lord of hosts, and my name is reverenced among the nations.

Malachi 1:8

When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not wrong? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not wrong? Try presenting that to your governor; will he be pleased with you or show you favor? says the Lord of hosts.

Ezekiel 22:11

One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you defiles his sister, his father’s daughter.

Jeremiah 9:2

O that I had in the desert a traveler’s lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a band of traitors.

Jeremiah 5:7

How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me and have sworn by those who are no gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery and trooped to the houses of prostitutes.

Psalm 50:17

For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.

Romans 12:9

Let love be genuine; hate what is evil; hold fast to what is good;