Romans 2:22
Good News Translation
You say, "Do not commit adultery"--but do you commit adultery? You detest idols--but do you rob temples?

New Revised Standard Version
You that forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You that abhor idols, do you rob temples?

Contemporary English Version
You say people should be faithful in marriage. But are you faithful? You hate idols, yet you rob their temples.

New American Bible
You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who detest idols, do you rob temples?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou, that sayest men should not commit adultery, committest adultery: thou, that abhorrest idols, committest sacrilege:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

adultery.

Jeremiah 5:7 How can I be merciful to thee? thy children have forsaken me, and swear by them that are not gods: I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and rioted in the harlot's house.

Jeremiah 7:9,10 To steal, to murder, to commit adultery, to swear falsely, to offer to Baalim, and to go after strange gods, which you know not. . . .

Jeremiah 9:2 Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors.

Ezekiel 22:11 And every one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife, and the father in law hath wickedly defiled his daughter in law, the brother hath oppressed his sister the daughter of his father in thee.

Matthew 12:39 Who answering said to them: An evil and adulterous generation seeketh a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.

Matthew 16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. And he left them, and went away.

James 4:4 Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world becometh an enemy of God.

sacrilege.

Malachi 1:8,14 If you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if you offer the lame and the sick, is it not evil? offer it to thy prince, if he will be pleased with it, or if he will regard thy face, saith the Lord of hosts. . . .

Malachi 3:8 Shall a man afflict God, for you afflict me. And you have said: Wherein do we afflict thee? in tithes and in firstfruits.

Mark 11:17 And he taught, saying to them: Is it not written: My house shall be called the house of prayer to all nations, but you have made it a den of thieves.

Context
The Jews and the Law
21Thou therefore, that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou, that preachest that men should not steal, stealest. 22Thou, that sayest men should not commit adultery, committest adultery: thou, that abhorrest idols, committest sacrilege: 23Thou, that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest God.…
Cross References
Psalm 50:17
Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.

Acts 19:37
For you have brought hither these men, who are neither guilty of sacrilege nor of blasphemy against your goddess.

Romans 12:9
Let love be without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, cleaving to that which is good,

Romans 2:21
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