Romans 2:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God?

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Referenced Verses

  • Mal 3:8 : 8 Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings.
  • Acts 19:37 : 37 For you have taken these men, who are not doing damage to the holy place or talking against our goddess.
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.
  • Matt 12:39 : 39 But he, answering, said to them, An evil and false generation is looking for a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of the prophet Jonah:
  • Matt 16:4 : 4 An evil and false generation is searching after a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah. And he went away from them.
  • Mark 11:17 : 17 And he gave them teaching, and said to them, Is it not in the Writings, My house is to be named a house of prayer for all the nations? but you have made it a hole of thieves.
  • Jer 5:7 : 7 How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.
  • Jer 7:9-9 : 9 Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you; 10 And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?
  • Jer 9:2 : 2 If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.
  • Ezek 22:11 : 11 And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.
  • Mal 1:8 : 8 And when you give what is blind for an offering, it is no evil! and when you give what is damaged and ill, it is no evil! Give it now to your ruler; will he be pleased with you, or will you have his approval? says the Lord of armies.
  • Mal 1:14 : 14 A curse on the false man who has a male in his flock, and takes his oath, and gives to the Lord a damaged thing: for I am a great King, says the Lord of armies, and my name is to be feared among the Gentiles.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Rom 2:20-21
    2 verses
    86%

    20 A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true;

    21 You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take what is not his, do you take what is not yours?

  • Rom 2:23-24
    2 verses
    83%

    23 You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?

    24 For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings.

  • Jas 2:9-12
    4 verses
    81%

    9 But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.

    10 For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.

    11 For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken.

    12 Let your words and your acts be those of men who are to be judged by the law which makes free.

  • Matt 5:27-28
    2 verses
    77%

    27 You have knowledge that it was said, You may not have connection with another man's wife:

    28 But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.

  • Exod 20:14-17
    4 verses
    77%

    14 Do not be false to the married relation.

    15 Do not take the property of another.

    16 Do not give false witness against your neighbour.

    17 Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his.

  • Rom 2:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    1 So you have no reason, whoever you are, for judging: for in judging another you are judging yourself, for you do the same things.

    2 And we are conscious that God is a true judge against those who do such things.

    3 But you who are judging another for doing what you do yourself, are you hoping that God's decision will not take effect against you?

  • Matt 19:18
    75%

    18 He says to him, Which? And Jesus said, Do not put anyone to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness,

  • Mark 10:19
    74%

    19 You have knowledge of what is said in the law, Do not put any one to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Do not get money by deceit, Give honour to your father and mother.

  • Deut 5:18-20
    3 verses
    74%

    18 Do not be false to the married relation.

    19 Do not take the property of another.

    20 Do not give false witness against your neighbour;

  • Luke 18:20
    74%

    20 You have knowledge of what the law says: Do not be untrue to your wife, Do not put anyone to death, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Give honour to your father and mother.

  • Ps 50:18
    72%

    18 When you saw a thief, you were in agreement with him, and you were joined with those who took other men's wives.

  • Ezek 16:32
    72%

    32 The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

  • Lev 20:10
    71%

    10 And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.

  • John 8:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 And putting her forward, they said to him, Master, this woman has been taken in the very act of sinning against the married relation.

    5 Now in the law Moses gave directions that such women were to be stoned; what do you say about it?

  • Rom 13:9
    71%

    9 And this, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not put to death, Do not take what is another's, Do not have desire for what is another's, and if there is any other order, it is covered by this word, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

  • Lev 18:20
    71%

    20 And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.

  • 1 Cor 5:2
    70%

    2 And in place of feeling sorrow, you are pleased with yourselves, so that he who has done this thing has not been sent away from among you.

  • Matt 5:33
    70%

    33 Again, you have knowledge that it was said in old times, Do not take false oaths, but give effect to your oaths to the Lord:

  • Prov 6:32
    70%

    32 He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.

  • Ezek 22:11
    70%

    11 And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.

  • Ezek 22:8
    69%

    8 You have made little of my holy things, and have made my Sabbaths unclean.

  • Rom 7:7
    69%

    7 What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

  • Jas 2:7
    69%

    7 Do they not say evil of the holy name which was given to you?

  • Rom 2:27
    69%

    27 And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.

  • Mark 10:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11 And he said to them, Whoever puts away his wife and takes another, is false to his wife;

    12 And if she herself puts away her husband and takes another, she is false to her husband.

  • Jer 7:9
    69%

    9 Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;

  • Job 35:6
    69%

    6 If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?

  • Ezek 18:11
    69%

    11 Who has taken flesh with the blood as food, and has had connection with his neighbour's wife,

  • Jer 3:2
    69%

    2 Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.

  • Rom 2:17
    68%

    17 But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God,

  • Ezek 16:17
    68%

    17 And you took the fair jewels, my silver and gold which I had given to you, and made for yourself male images, acting like a loose woman with them;

  • 1 Cor 6:8
    68%

    8 So far from doing this, you yourselves do wrong and take your brothers' property.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
    68%

    17 If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.

  • Deut 17:2
    68%

    2 If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement,

  • Ezek 18:15
    68%

    15 Who has not taken the flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel, and has not had connection with his neighbour's wife,