Romans 2:21-23

God's Judgment and the Law

²¹ _h you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? ²² You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you _i rob temples? ²³ You who _j boast in the law _k dishonor God by breaking the law.

1. Cross References
   Matthew 23:3 - 28
   So practice and observe whatever they tell you - but not what they do. For they preach, but do not practice.
   Psalms 50:16 - 21
   But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?
   Matthew 15:1 - 9
   Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said.
   
2. Cross References
   Acts 19:37
   For you have brought these men here who are neither sacrilegious nor blasphemers of our goddess.
   Malachi 3:8
   Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In your tithes and contributions.
   
3. Cross References
   Romans 2:17
   But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God
   Romans 3:27
   Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.
   
4. Cross References
   Malachi 1:6
   "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, 'How have we despised your name?'