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41 Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye but do not notice the log in your own eye?

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41 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

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When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”(A)

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When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone(A) at her.”(B)

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24 for they look at themselves and, on going away, immediately forget what they were like.

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24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

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The Righteous Judgment of God

Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge others, for in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things.(A)

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God’s Righteous Judgment

You, therefore, have no excuse,(A) you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.(B)

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21 you, then, who teach others, will you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?(A) 22 You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by your transgression of the law? 24 For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed[a] among the gentiles because of you.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.24 Or despised

21 you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?(A) 22 You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?(B) 23 You who boast in the law,(C) do you dishonor God by breaking the law? 24 As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”[a](D)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 2:24 Isaiah 52:5 (see Septuagint); Ezek. 36:20,22

Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye but do not notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your neighbor, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor’s eye.

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“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

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40 but now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did. 41 You are indeed doing what your father does.” They said to him, “We are not illegitimate children; we have one Father, God himself.”(A) 42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God, and now I am here. I did not come on my own, but he sent me.(B) 43 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot accept my word. 44 You are from your father the devil, and you choose to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.(C)

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40 As it is, you are looking for a way to kill me,(A) a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God.(B) Abraham did not do such things. 41 You are doing the works of your own father.”(C)

“We are not illegitimate children,” they protested. “The only Father we have is God himself.”(D)

42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me,(E) for I have come here from God.(F) I have not come on my own;(G) God sent me.(H) 43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. 44 You belong to your father, the devil,(I) and you want to carry out your father’s desires.(J) He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.(K)

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The heart is devious above all else;
    it is perverse—
    who can understand it?(A)

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The heart(A) is deceitful above all things
    and beyond cure.
    Who can understand it?

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Then David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man. He said to Nathan, “As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die;(A) he shall restore the lamb fourfold because he did this thing and because he had no pity.”(B)

Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I anointed you king over Israel, and I rescued you from the hand of Saul;(C)

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David(A) burned with anger(B) against the man(C) and said to Nathan, “As surely as the Lord lives,(D) the man who did this must die! He must pay for that lamb four times over,(E) because he did such a thing and had no pity.”

Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man!(F) This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed(G) you(H) king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.

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28 Because they considered and turned away from all the transgressions that they had committed, they shall surely live; they shall not die.

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28 Because they consider all the offenses they have committed and turn away from them, that person will surely live; they will not die.(A)

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For they flatter themselves in their own eyes
    that their iniquity cannot be found out and hated.

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In their own eyes they flatter themselves
    too much to detect or hate their sin.(A)

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But he did not include Levi and Benjamin in the numbering, for the king’s command was abhorrent to Joab.(A)

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But Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the numbering, because the king’s command was repulsive to him.

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32 The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than he: Abner son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.(A)

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32 The Lord will repay(A) him for the blood he shed,(B) because without my father David knowing it he attacked two men and killed them with the sword. Both of them—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa(C) son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army—were better(D) men and more upright than he.

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