Romans 2:22

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?

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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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Mal 3:8 : 8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
Acts 19:37 : 37 For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.
Jas 4:4 : 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the 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 to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
Matt 16:4 : 4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
Mark 11:17 : 17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written , My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Jer 5:7 : 7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in 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 whom ye know not; 10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to 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 be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Ezek 22:11 : 11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour'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 if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.
Mal 1:14 : 14 But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.

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