Romans 2:21 Cross References - Riverside

²¹ you who are teaching another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach not to steal, do you steal?

¹³ and he said, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you are making it a den of robbers."

³ So whatever they tell you, do and observe, but do not do as they do. For they say and do not. ⁴ They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. ⁵ All their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and make their tassels large. ⁶ They love the best couches at dinners and the front seats in the synagogues ⁷ and salutations in the markets and to be called by men Rabbi. ⁸ But do not you be called Rabbi. For one is your Teacher and all of you are brothers. ⁹ And do not call any one on earth Father, for one is your Father in heaven. ¹⁰ Neither be called guides, for your Guide is one alone — the Christ. ¹¹ The greatest of you will be your servant. ¹² Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. ¹³ "But alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut the kingdom of heaven before men. You yourselves do not enter nor do you permit those who are entering to go in. ¹⁴ TEXT OMITTED ¹⁵ Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is won you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves. ¹⁶ Alas for you, blind guides! You say, 'Whoever swears by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the Temple is bound.' ¹⁷ Fools and blind, which is greater, the gold or the Temple that makes the gold holy? ¹⁸ You say, 'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on the altar is bound.' ¹⁹ You blind, which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy? ²⁰ He, then, who swears by the altar swears by it and everything on it, ²¹ and he who swears by the Temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it, ²² and he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who sits upon it. ²³ "Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithes of mint, dill, and carraway and have disregarded the weightier matters of the law — justice and kindness and good faith. These you should have practiced, without neglecting those other things. ²⁴ Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and drink down a camel! ²⁵ Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full through greed and self-indulgence. ²⁶ Blind Pharisees, cleanse first the inside of your cup so that the outside of it may become clean also. ²⁷ Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs which outside appear beautiful, but inside are full of dead men's bones and every kind of uncleanness. ²⁸ So you, too, outwardly appear to men to be righteous, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

²³ He said to them, "Of course, you will quote to me the saying, 'Physician, heal yourself.' 'Whatever we have heard of as done in Capernaum, do here in your native place.'

⁴⁶ He said, "Alas for you lawyers also! for you burden men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

⁴⁷ That servant who knew his master's will and is not ready, and has not done according to his will, will be beaten with many lashes.

²² He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. Did you know that I was an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping where I did not sow?

²⁷ On the contrary, I maul and master my body so that I may not, after preaching to others, become myself unable to stand the test.

¹³ For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the Law, but they wish you to be circumcised in order to boast in your flesh.

¹ YOU must speak to them of the matters which should have a place in wholesome teaching. ² Tell the older men to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, in patience. ³ Tell the older women, in the same way, to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is noble, ⁴ that they may train the young women to be loving wives and loving mothers, ⁵ self-controlled, pure, home-workers, kind, submissive to their own husbands, that God's message may not be slandered. ⁶ Urge the younger men, in the same way, to practice self-control in everything. ⁷ Make yourself an example of good works, sincerity in teaching, dignified behavior