Romans 2:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ λέγων μὴ μοιχεύειν, μοιχεύεις; ὁ βδελυσσόμενος τὰ εἴδωλα, ἱεροσυλεῖς;

Transliteration

Ho legōn not to moicheuein, you moicheueis? ho bdelyssomenos the eidōla, you hierosyleis?

Grammar Details

*Ho legōn*: article + participle, present active, nominative, masculine, singular - the one saying
*moicheuein*: verb, present infinitive - to commit adultery
*moicheueis*: verb, present indicative, 2nd person singular - you commit adultery
*ho bdelyssomenos*: article + participle, present middle, nominative, masculine, singular - the one abhorring
*eidōla*: noun, accusative, neuter, plural - idols
*hierosyleis*: verb, present indicative, 2nd person singular - you rob temples

Word Meanings

*legōn*: saying/speaking/telling
*moicheuein*: to commit adultery
*moicheueis*: commit adultery
*bdelyssomenos*: abhorring/detesting/loathing
*eidōla*: idols/images/false gods
*hierosyleis*: rob temples/commit sacrilege

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Mal 3:8 : 8 Will a man rob God? yet ye rob me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
Acts 19:37 : 37 For ye have brought [hither] these men, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of our goddess.
Jas 4:4 : 4 Ye {G3432} {G2532} adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever {G302} therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
Matt 12:39 : 39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet:
Matt 16:4 : 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.
Mark 11:17 : 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.
Jer 5:7 : 7 How can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses.
Jer 7:9-9 : 9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods that ye have not known, 10 and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that ye may do all these abominations?
Jer 9:2 : 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.
Ezek 22:11 : 11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
Mal 1:8 : 8 And when ye offer the blind for sacrifice, it is no evil! and when ye offer the lame and sick, it is no evil! Present it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee? or will he accept thy person? saith Jehovah of hosts.
Mal 1:14 : 14 But cursed be the deceiver, who hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King, saith Jehovah of hosts, and my name is terrible among the Gentiles.

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