When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
Parallel translations
- KJV When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
- BSB When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
- NKJV When you saw a thief, you consented with him, And have been a partaker with adulterers.
- NASB “When you see a thief, you become friends with him, And you associate with adulterers.
- NLT When you see thieves, you approve of them, and you spend your time with adulterers.
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- Rom 1:32who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
- 1 Tim 5:22Lay hands hastily on no one, neither be a participant in other men’s sins. Keep yourself pure.
- Heb 13:4Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- Matt 23:30and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’
- Mic 7:3Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
- Lev 20:10“‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
- Prov 2:16–19To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
- Job 31:9–11“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,
- Jer 5:8–9They were as fed horses roaming at large: everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
- Eph 5:11–13Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
- Prov 7:19–23For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.
- Isa 5:23who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!
- Prov 1:10–19My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.
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