Psalms 50:18
When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
BSB
ASV
When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him, And hast been partaker with adulterers.
KJV
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him. Moral honesty cannot be absent where true grace is present. Those who excuse others in trickery are guilty themselves; those who use others to do unjust actions for them are doubly so. If a man be ever so religious, if his own actions do not rebuke dishonesty, he is an accomplice with thieves. If we can acquiesce in anything which is not upright, we are not upright ourselves, and our religion is a lie. And hast been partaker with adulterers.
They are unworthy to use even the words of God's law. Their hypocrisy and vice are exposed by illustrations from sins against the seventh, eighth, and ninth commandments. God, no longer (even in appearance) disregarding such, exposes their sins and threatens a terrible punishment.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Hebrews 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
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For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
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Romans 1:32Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.
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You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on another. For on whatever grounds you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.
For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
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1 Timothy 5:22Do not be too quick in the laying on of hands and thereby share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.
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Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.