Luke 6:42
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42 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the plank that is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother’s eye.
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Romans 2:21-29
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21 (A)You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal? 22 You who say, “Do not commit adultery,” do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, (B)do you rob temples? 23 You who (C)make your boast in the law, do you dishonor God through breaking the law? 24 For (D)“the name of God is (E)blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” as it is written.
Circumcision of No Avail
25 (F)For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 Therefore, (G)if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? 27 And will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, (H)judge you who, even with your [a]written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law? 28 For (I)he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; 29 but he is a Jew (J)who is one inwardly; and (K)circumcision is that of the heart, (L)in the Spirit, not in the letter; (M)whose [b]praise is not from men but from God.
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- Romans 2:27 Lit. letter
- Romans 2:29 A play on words—Jew is literally praise.
1 Thessalonians 2:10-12
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10 (A)You are witnesses, and God also, (B)how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you who believe; 11 as you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and [a]charged every one of you, as a father does his own children, 12 (C)that you would walk worthy of God (D)who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
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- 1 Thessalonians 2:11 NU, M implored
Matthew 23:13-15
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13 “But (A)woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. 14 [a]Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! (B)For you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
15 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of [b]hell as yourselves.
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- Matthew 23:14 NU omits v. 14.
- Matthew 23:15 Gr. Gehenna
Psalm 51:9-13
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9 Hide Your face from my sins,
And blot out all my iniquities.
10 (A)Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me away from Your presence,
And do not take Your (B)Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation,
And uphold me by Your (C)generous Spirit.
13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways,
And sinners shall be converted to You.
Revelation 3:17-18
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17 Because you say, (A)‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked— 18 I counsel you (B)to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and (C)white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.
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2 Peter 1:9
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9 For he who lacks these things is (A)shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
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Philemon 10-11
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10 I appeal to you for my son (A)Onesimus, whom I have begotten while in my chains, 11 who once was unprofitable to you, but now is profitable to you and to me.
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2 Timothy 2:21
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21 Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, [a]sanctified and useful for the Master, (A)prepared for every good work.
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- 2 Timothy 2:21 set apart
2 Corinthians 5:18
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18 Now all things are of God, (A)who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,
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Romans 2:1
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God’s Righteous Judgment
2 Therefore you are (A)inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, (B)for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.
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Acts 13:10
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10 and said, “O full of all deceit and all fraud, (A)you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?
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Acts 9:9-20
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9 And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank.
Ananias Baptizes Saul
10 Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus (A)named Ananias; and to him the Lord said in a vision, “Ananias.”
And he said, “Here I am, Lord.”
11 So the Lord said to him, “Arise and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for one called Saul (B)of Tarsus, for behold, he is praying. 12 And in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hand on him, so that he might receive his sight.”
13 Then Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, (C)how much [a]harm he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem. 14 And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all (D)who call on Your name.”
15 But the Lord said to him, “Go, for (E)he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before (F)Gentiles, (G)kings, and the (H)children[b] of Israel. 16 For (I)I will show him how many things he must suffer for My (J)name’s sake.”
17 (K)And Ananias went his way and entered the house; and (L)laying his hands on him he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord [c]Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and (M)be filled with the Holy Spirit.” 18 Immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he received his sight at once; and he arose and was baptized.
19 So when he had received food, he was strengthened. (N)Then Saul spent some days with the disciples at Damascus.
Saul Preaches Christ
20 Immediately he preached [d]the Christ in the synagogues, that He is the Son of God.
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