Romans 2:22

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  You who say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

• 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?

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Thou sayst a man shuld not commit advoutry: and thou breakest wedlocke. Thou abhorrest ymages and robbest God of his honoure.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Thou sayest, that a man shulde not breake wedlocke, and thou breakest wedlocke. Thou abhorrest ymages, and robbest God of his honoure.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Thou that saist, A man should not commit adulterie, doest thou commit adulterie? thou that abhorrest idoles, committest thou sacrilege?

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Thou that sayest a man shoulde not commit adulterie, breakest wedlocke. Thou abhorrest idoles, and yet robbest God of his honour.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  thou who art preaching not to steal, dost thou steal? thou who art saying not to commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou who art abhorring the idols, dost thou rob temples?

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• 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?

• World English Bible (2000)

  You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

Referenced Verses

• 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.