Romans 2:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

You therefore who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ οὖν διδάσκων ἕτερον, σεαυτὸν οὐ διδάσκεις; ὁ κηρύσσων μὴ κλέπτειν, κλέπτεις;

Transliteration

Therefore ho didaskōn heteron, seauton not you didaskeis? ho kēryssōn not to kleptein, you klepteis?

Grammar Details

• *ho didaskōn*: article + participle, present active, nominative, masculine, singular - the one teaching
• *heteron*: adjective used as noun, accusative, masculine, singular - another
• *seauton*: reflexive pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular - yourself
• *didaskeis*: verb, present indicative, 2nd person singular - you teach
• *ho kēryssōn*: article + participle, present active, nominative, masculine, singular - the one preaching
• *kleptein*: verb, present infinitive - to steal
• *klepteis*: verb, present indicative, 2nd person singular - you steal

Word Meanings

• *didaskōn*: teaching/instructing
• *heteron*: another/other person
• *didaskeis*: teach/instruct
• *kēryssōn*: preaching/proclaiming/heralding
• *kleptein*: to steal/take secretly
• *klepteis*: steal/take secretly

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  You then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  thou therefore that teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  But thou which teachest another teachest not thy selfe. Thou preachest a man shuld not steale: and yet thou stealest.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Now teachest thou other, and teachest not thy selfe. Thou preachest that a man shulde not steale, and thou stealest.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Thou therefore, which teachest another, teachest thou not thy selfe? thou that preachest, A man should not steale, doest thou steale?

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest not thy selfe? Thou preachest a man shoulde not steale, yet thou stealest.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do you steal?

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Thou, then, who art teaching another, thyself dost thou not teach?

• American Standard Version (1901)

  thou therefore that teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

• American Standard Version (1901)

  thou therefore that teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  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?

• World English Bible (2000)

  You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do you steal?

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  therefore you who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

Referenced Verses

• Matt 23:3-9 : 3 Therefore, whatever they ask you to observe, that observe and do; but do not do according to their works: for they say and do not. 4 For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 5 But all their works they do to be seen by men: they make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders of their garments, 6 and love the best places at feasts and the chief seats in the synagogues, 7 and greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi. 8 But do not be called Rabbi: for one is your Teacher, the Christ; and all you are brethren. 9 And call no man on earth your father: for one is your Father, who is in heaven. 10 Neither be called teachers: for one is your Teacher, the Christ. 11 But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. 12 And whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and he who humbles himself shall be exalted. 13 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in. 14 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: therefore you shall receive greater condemnation. 15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you travel land and sea to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves. 16 Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated! 17 Fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold? 18 And, Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is guilty. 19 Fools and blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift? 20 Therefore, whoever swears by the altar, swears by it and by all things on it. 21 And whoever swears by the temple, swears by it and by him that dwells in it. 22 And he who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by him who sits on it. 23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith: these you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. 24 Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel. 25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and excess. 26 Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also. 27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. 28 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
• Mic 3:11 : 11 The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.
• Ps 50:16-21 : 16 But to the wicked God says, What right do you have to declare My statutes, or to take My covenant in your mouth? 17 Seeing you hate instruction, and cast My words behind you. 18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers. 19 You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit. 20 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son. 21 These things you have done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether like you: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes.
• Luke 12:47 : 47 And that servant, who knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
• Luke 19:22 : 22 And he said to him, Out of your own mouth I will judge you, wicked servant. You knew that I was an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow.
• 1 Cor 9:27 : 27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
• Gal 6:13 : 13 For neither do they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, so that they may boast in your flesh.
• Titus 2:1-7 : 1 But speak the things that are fitting for sound doctrine: 2 That the older men be sober, dignified, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience. 3 The older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to much wine, teachers of good things; 4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed. 6 Likewise exhort the young men to be sober-minded. 7 In all things showing yourself a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, dignity, sincerity,
• Isa 56:11 : 11 Yes, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his territory.
• Ezek 22:12-13 : 12 In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord GOD. 13 Behold, therefore I have struck My hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been in your midst.
• Ezek 22:27 : 27 Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
• Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, making the ephah small and the shekel large, and falsifying the balances with deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
• Matt 21:13 : 13 And said to them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves.
• Luke 4:23 : 23 And he said to them, You will surely say to me this proverb, Physician, heal yourself: whatever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in your country.
• Luke 11:46 : 46 And he said, Woe to you also, lawyers! for you load men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.