Romans 2:22

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?

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  • Mal 3:8 : 8 Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.
  • Acts 19:37 : 37 For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
  • Matt 12:39 : 39 But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.
  • Matt 16:4 : 4 An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah." He left them, and departed.
  • Mark 11:17 : 17 He taught, saying to them, "Isn't it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the 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 them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.
  • Jer 7:9-9 : 9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known, 10 and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may 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 are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
  • Ezek 22:11 : 11 One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
  • Mal 1:8 : 8 When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn't that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn't that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?" says Yahweh of Hosts.
  • Mal 1:14 : 14 "But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King," says Yahweh of hosts, "and my name is awesome among the nations."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 2:20-21
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    20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

    21You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do you steal?

  • Rom 2:23-24
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    23You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?

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

  • Jas 2:9-12
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    9But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

    10For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he has become guilty of all.

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

    12So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

  • Matt 5:27-28
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    27"You have heard that it was said, {TR adds "to the ancients,"} 'You shall not commit adultery;'

    28but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already 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 man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."

  • Rom 2:1-3
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    1Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

    2We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

    3Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

  • Matt 19:18
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    18He said to him, "Which ones?" Jesus said, "'You shall not murder.' 'You shall not commit adultery.' 'You shall not steal.' 'You shall not offer 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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    18"Neither shall you commit adultery.

    19"Neither shall you steal.

    20"Neither shall you give false testimony against your neighbor.

  • Luke 18:20
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    20You know the commandments: 'Don't commit adultery,' 'Don't murder,' 'Don't steal,' 'Don't give false testimony,' 'Honor your father and your mother.'"

  • Ps 50:18
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    18When you saw a thief, you consented with him, And have participated with adulterers.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  • Lev 20:10
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    10"'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

  • John 8:4-5
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    4they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.

    5Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such. What then do you say about her?"

  • Rom 13:9
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    9For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet,"{TR adds "You shall not give false testimony,"} and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

  • Lev 18:20
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    20"'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.

  • 1 Cor 5:2
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    2You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

  • Matt 5:33
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    33"Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, 'You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,'

  • Prov 6:32
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    32He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

  • Ezek 22:11
    70%

    11One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

  • Ezek 22:8
    69%

    8You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

  • Rom 7:7
    69%

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

  • Jas 2:7
    69%

    7Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

  • Rom 2:27
    69%

    27Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

  • Mark 10:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

    12If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."

  • Jer 7:9
    69%

    9Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

  • Job 35:6
    69%

    6If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

  • Ezek 18:11
    69%

    11and who does not any of those [duties], but even has eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,

  • Jer 3:2
    69%

    2Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see; where have you not been lain with? By the ways have you sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.

  • Rom 2:17
    68%

    17Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,

  • Ezek 16:17
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    17You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them;

  • 1 Cor 6:8
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    8No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
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    17If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.

  • Deut 17:2
    68%

    2If there be found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in transgressing his covenant,

  • Ezek 18:15
    68%

    15who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife,