Verse 22

You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

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  • Mal 3:8 : 8 Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you ask, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.
  • Acts 19:37 : 37 For you have brought these men here, who are neither temple robbers nor blasphemers of your goddess.
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
  • Matt 12:39 : 39 But He answered them, 'An evil and unfaithful generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.'
  • Matt 16:4 : 4 An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet." Then He left them and went away.
  • Mark 11:17 : 17 As he was teaching them, he said, 'Is it not written: My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of robbers.'
  • Jer 5:7 : 7 How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by false gods. I satisfied them, but they committed adultery and gathered at the houses of prostitutes.
  • Jer 7:9-9 : 9 Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, 10 and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my name, and say, ‘We are safe,’ only to go on doing all these detestable things?
  • Jer 9:2 : 2 They bend their tongues like a bow to shoot lies, not for truth do they grow strong in the land; they go from one evil to another, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
  • Ezek 22:11 : 11 One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife, another defiles his daughter-in-law with wickedness, and another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.
  • Mal 1:8 : 8 When you bring blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you offer lame or sick animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you? says the LORD of Hosts.
  • Mal 1:14 : 14 Cursed is the deceiver who has a male animal in his flock and vows to give it, but instead sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a great King, says the LORD of Hosts, and my name is to be feared among the nations.