¹⁴ But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.

God’s Righteous Judgment

2 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)

²² If I had not come and spoken to them,^(A) they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.^{(B) 23} Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. ²⁴ If I had not done among them the works no one else did,^(C) they would not be guilty of sin.^(D) As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law:^(E) ‘They hated me without reason.’^[a](F)

⁴⁷ “The servant who knows the master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows.^{(A) 48} But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows.^(B) From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.

²⁷ The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you^(A) who, even though you have the^[a] written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.

¹⁹ This is the verdict: Light^(A) has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.^(B)