Romans 2:22

Integrity Marriage

²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

²¹ you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

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

²³ You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

²⁴ As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
KJV: Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
WEB: You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
ASV: thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou rob temples?
DARBY: thou that sayest [man should] not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
BLB: [You] who are saying not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? [You] who are abhorring idols, do you rob temples?

ÅB: Du som sier at man ikke skal drive hor, driver du hor? Du som avskyr avgudene, raner du avgudenes templer?
OTB: Du som sier at folk ikke skal begå ekteskapsbrudd, begår du ekteskapsbrudd? Du som avskyr avguder, plyndrer du templer?
B1930: du som sier at en ikke skal drive hor, driver du hor? du som har motbydelighet for avgudene, raner du avgudenes templer?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Malachi 3:8
Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
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Matthew 12:39
Jesus replied, “A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
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Jeremiah 9:2
If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
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Acts 19:37
For you have brought these men here, though they have neither robbed our temple nor blasphemed our goddess.
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Malachi 1:8
When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.
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Ezekiel 22:11
One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.
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James 4:4
You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
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Jeremiah 5:7
“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.
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