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Psalms 50:18
18When you see a thief, you make friends with him, and you associate with adulterers.
Psalms 50:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
- New International Version (NIV)When you see a thief, you join with him; you throw in your lot with adulterers.
- English Standard Version (ESV)If you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you keep company with adulterers.
- New King James Version (NKJV)When you saw a thief, you consented with him, And have been a partaker with adulterers.
Context of Psalms 50:18
16But God says to the wicked: “What right do you have to recite my statutes and to take my covenant on your lips? 17You hate instruction and fling my words behind you. When you see a thief, you make friends with him, and you associate with adulterers. 19You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue for deceit. 20You sit, maligning your brother, slandering your mother’s son.
Read all of Psalms 50Psalms 50:18 word by word
אִם־רָאִ֣יתָ גַ֭נָּב וַתִּ֣רֶץ עִמּ֑וֹ וְעִ֖ם מְנָאֲפִ֣ים חֶלְקֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 50:18
- Proverbs 1:10My son, if sinners entice you, don’t be persuaded.
- Isaiah 5:23who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
- Micah 7:3Both hands are good at accomplishing evil: the official and the judge demand a bribe; when the powerful man communicates his evil desire, they plot it together.
- Romans 1:32Although they know God’s just sentence — that those who practice such things deserve to die — they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.
- Ephesians 5:11Don’t participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them.
- Leviticus 7:19“Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned. Everyone who is clean may eat any other meat.
- Jeremiah 5:8They are well-fed, eager stallions, each neighing after someone else’s wife.
- Hebrews 13:4Marriage is to be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- Matthew 23:30and you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we wouldn’t have taken part with them in shedding the prophets’ blood.’
- 1 Timothy 5:22Don’t be too quick to appoint anyone as an elder, and don’t share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.
Commentaries on Psalms 50:18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18When thou sawest a thief - Rapine, adulteries, and adulterous divines, were common among the Jews in our Lord's time. The Gospels give full proof of this.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18When thou sawest a thief - When you have seen or found one who was intending to commit theft, then (instead of rebuking or exposing him) you have been willing to act with him, and to divide the profits. The words “when thou sawest” would seem to imply readiness and willingness to engage with them, as “at first sight.” Whenever there was an opportunity to share in the results of theft, they were ready to engage in it. The main “point” in this is, that they…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 16-23Verses 16-23 Hypocrisy is wickedness, which God will judge. And it is too common, for those who declare the Lord's statutes to others, to live in disobedience to them themselves. This delusion arises from the abuse of God's long-suffering, and a wilful mistake of his character and the intention of his gospel. The sins of sinners will be fully proved on them in the judgment of the great day. The day is coming when God will set their sins in order, sins of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16-21This message is against the wicked, who only pretend to listen to God.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-2016-20. the wicked--that is, the formalists, as now exposed, and who lead vicious lives (compare Ro 2:21, 23). 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.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 50
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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