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Romans 2:22

Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

KJV

ὁ λέγων μὴ μοιχεύειν μοιχεύεις; ὁ βδελυσσόμενος τὰ εἴδωλα ἱεροσυλεῖς;

Greek NT

qui dicis non mœchandum, mœcharis : qui abominaris idola, sacrilegium facis :

Vulgate

thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou rob temples?

ASV

Thou, that sayest men should not commit adultery, committest adultery: thou, that abhorrest idols, committest sacrilege:

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

7 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

βδελύσσω
bdelusso
verb · 2×
εἴδωλον
eidolon
noun · 11×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
μοιχεύω
moicheuo
verb · 16×
ἱεροσυλέω
ierosuleo
verb · 1×
o
article · 19778×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Acts 19:37 — For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.
  • Deut 7:26 — Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
  • John 8:9 — And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
  • Lev 26:1 — Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
  • Mal 3:8 — Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
  • Mal 3:8 — Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
  • Matt 12:39 — 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: