Romans 2:21
Good News Translation
You teach others--why don't you teach yourself? You preach, "Do not steal"--but do you yourself steal?

New Revised Standard Version
you, then, that teach others, will you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?

Contemporary English Version
But how can you teach others when you refuse to learn? You preach it is wrong to steal. But do you steal?

New American Bible
then you who teach another, are you failing to teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou therefore, that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou, that preachest that men should not steal, stealest.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou therefore, that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou, that preachest that men should not steal, stealest.

therefore.

Psalm 50:16-21 But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth? . . .

Matthew 23:3 All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not. For they say, and do not.

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Luke 4:23 And he said to them: Doubtless you will say to me this similitude: Physician, heal thyself. As great things as we have heard done in Capharnaum, do also here in thy own country.

Luke 11:46 But he said: Woe to you lawyers also, because you load men with burdens which they cannot bear and you yourselves touch not the packs with one of your fingers.

Luke 12:47 And that servant, who knew the will of his lord and prepared not himself and did not according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

Luke 19:22 He saith to him: Out of thy own mouth I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up what I laid not down and reaping that which I did not sow.

1 Corinthians 9:27 But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.

Galatians 6:13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law: but they will have you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

Titus 2:1-7 But speak thou the things that become sound doctrine: . . .

dost thou steal.

Isaiah 56:11 And most impudent dogs, they never had enough: the shepherds themselves knew no understanding: all have turned aside into their own way, every one after his own gain, from the first even to the last.

Ezekiel 22:12,13,27 They have taken gifts in thee to shed blood: thou hast taken usury and increase, and hast covetously oppressed thy neighbours: and thou hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God. . . .

Amos 8:4-6 And the hinges of the temple shall screak in that day, saith the Lord God: many shall die: silence shall be cast in every place. . . .

Micah 3:11 You that build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Matthew 21:13 And he saith to them: It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves.

Matthew 23:14 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment.

Context
The Jews and the Law
20An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in 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:…
Cross References
Psalm 50:17
Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.

Isaiah 42:20
Thou that seest many things, wilt thou not observe them? thou that hast ears open, wilt thou not hear?

Matthew 23:3
All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not. For they say, and do not.

Romans 2:20
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