Romans 2:22

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

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  • Mal 3:8 : 8 Can a person rob God? You indeed are robbing me, but you say,‘How are we robbing you?’ In tithes and contributions!
  • Acts 19:37 : 37 For you have brought these men here who are neither temple robbers nor blasphemers of our goddess.
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.
  • Matt 12:39 : 39 But he answered them,“An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
  • Matt 16:4 : 4 A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” Then he left them and went away.
  • Mark 11:17 : 17 Then he began to teach them and said,“Is it not written:‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!”
  • Jer 5:7 : 7 The LORD asked,“How can I leave you unpunished, Jerusalem? Your people have rejected me and have worshiped gods that are not gods at all. Even though I supplied all their needs, they were like an unfaithful wife to me. They went flocking to the houses of prostitutes.
  • Jer 7:9-9 : 9 You steal. You murder. You commit adultery. You lie when you swear on oath. You sacrifice to the god Baal. You pay allegiance to other gods whom you have not previously known. 10 Then you come and stand in my presence in this temple I have claimed as my own and say,“We are safe!” You think you are so safe that you go on doing all those hateful sins!
  • Jer 9:2 : 2 (9:1) I wish I had a lodging place in the wilderness where I could spend some time like a weary traveler. Then I would desert my people and walk away from them because they are all unfaithful to God, a congregation of people that has been disloyal to him.
  • Ezek 22:11 : 11 One commits an abominable act with his neighbor’s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates his sister– his father’s daughter– within you.
  • Mal 1:8 : 8 For when you offer blind animals as a sacrifice, is that not wrong? And when you offer the lame and sick, is that not wrong as well? Indeed, try offering them to your governor! Will he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Mal 1:14 : 14 “There will be harsh condemnation for the hypocrite who has a valuable male animal in his flock but vows and sacrifices something inferior to the Lord. For I am a great king,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“and my name is awesome among the nations.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 2:20-21
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    20an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth–

    21therefore you who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

  • Rom 2:23-24
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    23You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

    24For just as it is written,“the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

  • Jas 2:9-12
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    9But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.

    10For the one who obeys the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

    11For he who said,“Do not commit adultery,” also said,“Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a violator of the law.

    12Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom.

  • Matt 5:27-28
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    27Adultery“You have heard that it was said,‘Do not commit adultery.’

    28But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

  • Exod 20:14-17
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    14“You shall not commit adultery.

    15“You shall not steal.

    16“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

    17“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

  • Rom 2:1-3
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    1The Condemnation of the Moralist Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge someone else. For on whatever grounds you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.

    2Now we know that God’s judgment is in accordance with truth against those who practice such things.

    3And do you think, whoever you are, when you judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape God’s judgment?

  • Matt 19:18
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    18“Which ones?” he asked. Jesus replied,“Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony,

  • Mark 10:19
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    19You know the commandments:‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.’”

  • Deut 5:18-20
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    18You must not commit adultery.

    19You must not steal.

    20You must not offer false testimony against another.

  • Luke 18:20
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    20You know the commandments:‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.’”

  • Ps 50:18
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    18When you see a thief, you join him; you associate with men who are unfaithful to their wives.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32“‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!

  • Lev 20:10
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    10If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

  • John 8:4-5
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    4and said to Jesus,“Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery.

    5In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death such women. What then do you say?”

  • Rom 13:9
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    9For the commandments,“Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet,”(and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this,“Love your neighbor as yourself.”

  • Lev 18:20
    71%

    20You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.

  • 1 Cor 5:2
    70%

    2And you are proud! Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?

  • Matt 5:33
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    33Oaths“Again, you have heard that it was said to an older generation,‘Do not break an oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’

  • Prov 6:32
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    32A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks sense, whoever does it destroys his own life.

  • Ezek 22:11
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    11One commits an abominable act with his neighbor’s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates his sister– his father’s daughter– within you.

  • Ezek 22:8
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    8You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths!

  • Rom 7:7
    69%

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said,“Do not covet.”

  • Jas 2:7
    69%

    7Do they not blaspheme the good name of the one you belong to?

  • Rom 2:27
    69%

    27The physically uncircumcised man, by keeping the law, will judge you to be the transgressor of the law, even though you have the letter and circumcision!

  • Mark 10:11-12
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    69%

    11So he told them,“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.

    12And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

  • Jer 7:9
    69%

    9You steal. You murder. You commit adultery. You lie when you swear on oath. You sacrifice to the god Baal. You pay allegiance to other gods whom you have not previously known.

  • Job 35:6
    69%

    6If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?

  • Ezek 18:11
    69%

    11(though the father did not do any of them). He eats pagan sacrifices on the mountains, defiles his neighbor’s wife,

  • Jer 3:2
    69%

    2“Look up at the hilltops and consider this. Where have you not been ravished? You waited for those gods like a thief lying in wait in the wilderness. You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution to other gods.

  • Rom 2:17
    68%

    17The Condemnation of the Jew But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

  • Ezek 16:17
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    17You also took your beautiful jewelry, made of my gold and my silver I had given to you, and made for yourself male images and engaged in prostitution with them.

  • 1 Cor 6:8
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    8But you yourselves wrong and cheat, and you do this to your brothers and sisters!

  • 1 Cor 3:17
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    17If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.

  • Deut 17:2
    68%

    2Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you– in one of your villages that the LORD your God is giving you– who sins before the Lord your God and breaks his covenant

  • Ezek 18:15
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    15He does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains, does not pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,