Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Thou who say not to commit adultery, do thou commit adultery? Thou who abhor idols, do thou rob temples?
New American Standard Bible
You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you
King James Version
Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
Holman Bible
You who say, “You must not commit adultery”—do you commit adultery? You who detest idols, do you rob their temples?
International Standard Version
As you forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? As you abhor idols, do you rob temples?
American Standard Version
thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou rob temples?
Amplified
You who say that one must not commit adultery,
An Understandable Version
You say that a person should not commit adultery [i.e., sexual unfaithfulness to their mate], [but] do you commit adultery? You [claim to] hate idols, [but] do you rob [their] temples? [Note: It is difficult to determine how the Jews were doing this. Perhaps they were guilty of the "spirit" of idolatry by devoting their efforts and affections to material things instead of to God].
Anderson New Testament
You who say that a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who detest idols, do you rob temples?
Bible in Basic English
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?
Common New Testament
You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
Daniel Mace New Testament
you who preach against stealing, do you steal? you who declaim against adultery, do you commit adultery? you who abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?
Darby Translation
thou that sayest man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
Godbey New Testament
do you, who say not to commit adultery, commit adultery? do you, who abominate idolatry, rob temples?
Goodspeed New Testament
Will you warn men against adultery, and yet practice it yourself? Will you pretend to detest idols, and yet rob their temples?
John Wesley New Testament
Thou that sayst, a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
Julia Smith Translation
Speaking not to commit adultery, committest thou adultery? abhorring images, committest thou sacrilege?
King James 2000
You that say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? you that abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?
Lexham Expanded Bible
The one who says not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? The one who abhors idols, do you rob temples?
Modern King James verseion
The one saying not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? The one detesting idols, do you rob temples?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou sayest, a man should not commit adultery: and thou breakest wedlock.
Moffatt New Testament
You forbid adultery; do you commit adultery? You detest idols; do you rob temples?
Montgomery New Testament
You who keep saying that a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who hold idols in abhorrence, are you plundering their temples?
NET Bible
You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
New Heart English Bible
You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
Noyes New Testament
Dost thou who forbiddest to commit adultery, thyself commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou rob temples?
Sawyer New Testament
You that command not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You that abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?
The Emphasized Bible
That sayest - Do not commit adultery! Art thou, committing adultery? That abhorrest sacrilege, Art thou, robbing temples?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
thou that sayest, Do not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that holdest idols in abomination, dost thou commit sacrilege?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Do you forbid adultery, and yet commit adultery? Do you loathe idols, and yet plunder temples?
Webster
Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
Weymouth New Testament
You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who loathe idols, do you plunder their temples?
Williams New Testament
You who warn men to stop committing adultery, do you practice it yourself? You who shrink in horror from idols, do you rob their temples?
World English Bible
You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
Worrell New Testament
You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
Worsley New Testament
Thou, that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou, that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
Youngs Literal Translation
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?
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 2:22
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Context Readings
God's Judgment And The Law
21 thou therefore who teach another, do thou not teach thyself? Thou who preach not to steal, do thou steal? 22 Thou who say not to commit adultery, do thou commit adultery? Thou who abhor idols, do thou rob temples? 23 Thou who boast in law, dishonor God by thy transgression of the law.
Cross References
Malachi 3:8
Will a man rob God? Yet ye rob me. But ye say, How have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
Acts 19:37
For ye brought these men, who are neither sacrilegious nor blaspheming your goddess.
Jeremiah 5:7
How can I pardon thee? Thy sons have forsaken me, and sworn by those who are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses.
Jeremiah 7:9-10
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that ye have not known,
Jeremiah 9:2
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.
Ezekiel 22:11
And one has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law, and another in thee has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
Malachi 1:8
And when ye offer the blind for sacrifice, [ye say,] It is no evil! and when ye offer the lame and sick, It is no evil! Present it now to thy governor. Will he be pleased with thee, or will he accept thy person? says LORD of hosts.
Malachi 1:14
But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to LORD a blemished thing. For I am a great King, says LORD of hosts, and my name is feared among the Gentiles.
Matthew 12:39
But having answered, he said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet.
Matthew 16:4
An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet. And having left them behind, he departed.
Mark 11:17
And he taught, saying to them, Is it not written, My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations? But ye made it a den of robbers.
James 4:4
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is hatred of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.