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Psalms 50:18

In 11 translations

BSB
When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
KJV
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.hast…: Heb. thy portion was with
WEB
When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
ASV
When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him, And hast been partaker with adulterers.
LSV
If you have seen a thief, || Then you are pleased with him, || And your portion [is] with adulterers.
YLT
If thou hast seen a thief, Then thou art pleased with him, And with adulterers [is] thy portion.
DBY
When thou sawest a thief, thou didst take pleasure in him, and thy portion was with adulterers;
DRC49:18
If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.
GNV
For when thou seest a thiefe, thou runnest with him, and thou art partaker with the adulterers.
JPS
When thou sawest a thief, thou hadst company with him, and with adulterers was thy portion.
LXXE49:18
If thou sawest a thief, thou rannest along with him, and hast cast in thy lot with adulterers.See 1 Pe 4. 4.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
אִם־רָאִ֣יתָ גַ֭נָּב וַתִּ֣רֶץ עִמּ֑וֹ וְעִ֖ם מְנָאֲפִ֣ים חֶלְקֶֽךָ׃
LXX-Br49:18
Εἰ ἐθεώρεις κλέπτην, συνέτρεχες αὐτῷ, καὶ μετὰ μοιχῶν τὴν μερίδα σου ἐτίθεις.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Hebrews 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
  • Proverbs 7:19–23For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey. He took with him a bag of money and will not return till the moon is full.” With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures…
  • Ephesians 5:11–13Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything…
  • Proverbs 2:16–19It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the…
  • Micah 7:3Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.
  • Matthew 23:30And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’
  • Leviticus 20:10If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
  • Jeremiah 5:8–9They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife. Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?
  • Proverbs 1:10–19My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them. If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause, let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those…
  • Isaiah 5:23who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
  • Job 31:9–11If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door, then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her. For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be…

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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