Verse 21
Romans 2:21
Bible in Basic English
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You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take what is not his, do you take what is not yours?
Original Language Text
greek
ὁ οὖν διδάσκων ἕτερον σεαυτὸν οὐ διδάσκεις; ὁ κηρύσσων μὴ κλέπτειν κλέπτεις;
English Translation
So, do you not teach yourself while teaching another? He who proclaims do not steal, do you steal?
AI translation from greek via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 2 Context
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So you have no reason, whoever you are, for judging: for in judging another you are judging yourself...
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And we are conscious that God (Elohim) is a true judge against those who do such things.
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But you who are judging another for doing what you do yourself, are you hoping that God (Elohim)'s d...
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Or is it nothing to you that God (Elohim) had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so lo...
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But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelat...
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Who will give to every man his right reward:
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To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will...
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But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of...
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Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek;
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But glory and honour and peace to all whose works are good, to the Jew first and then to the Greek:
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For one man is not different from another before God (Elohim).
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All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who ha...
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For it is not the hearers of the law who will be judged as having righteousness before God (Elohim),...
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For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a...
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Because the work of the law is seen in their hearts, their sense of right and wrong giving witness t...
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In the day when God (Elohim) will be a judge of the secrets of men, as it says in the good news of w...
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But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God (Elohim),
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And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the lea...
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In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,
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A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true;
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You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take wha...
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You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of...
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You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God (Elohim) by behaviour which...
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For the name of God (Elohim) is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy...
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It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as i...
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If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as cir...
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And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law i...
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The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in t...
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But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in th...
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