30 Bible Verses about Exaggerations

And they will bring forth slander of the land which they searched it out to the sons of Israel, saying, The land which we passed through upon it, to search it out, is a land consuming those dwelling upon it: and all the people which we saw in the midst of it, men being long. And there we saw the giants, sons of Anak, from the giants: and we were in our eyes as the locusts, and so were we in their eyes.

Whither are we going up? our brethren melted our heart, saying, A people great and high above us; cities great and fortified to the heavens; and also, the sons of the Anakims, we saw there.

Hear, Israel: Thou passest this day over Jordan to go to possess nations great and strong above thee; cities great and fortified to the heavens:

Wherefore shall the unjust live? They grew old, also they were strong in power. Their seed was established before their face with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Their houses peace from fear, and the rod of God not upon them.read more.
His ox passed over and will not be cast away: his heifer will escape and will not be barren.

For I was envious at the foolish; I shall see the peace of the unjust For not the pains to their death, and their body fat They are not in the trouble of men, and with man they shall not be struck.read more.
For this, pride surrounded them as a neck-chain; the dress of violence will cover to them. Their eye will come forth from fat: they passed over the imaginations of the heart They will mock and speak in evil of oppression: they will speak from elevation. They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue will go in the earth. For this, his people will turn back here: and full water shall be sucked out to them. And they said, How did God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High? Behold, these the unjust, and they being secure of the world increased riches.

And say to Tyre, Thou dwelling at the entrance of the sea, a traffic of the peoples for many islands, thus said the Lord Jehovah: O Tyre, thou saidst, I am perfect of beauty.

Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart was lifted up, and thou wilt say, I am God, I sat upon the seat of God in the heart of the seas; and thou art man and not God, and thou wilt give thy heart as the heart of God.

And Ephraim will say, Surely I became rich, I found to me wealth: all my labors shall not be found to me iniquity which was sin.

And one scribe, coming near, said to him, Teacher, I will follow thee wherever thou goest.

And it was, they going in the way, a certain one said to him, I will follow thee wherever thou shouldest go forth, Lord.

And he said to him, Lord, with thee am I ready to go, and to prison, and to death.

And upon a fixed day, Herod, having put on royal apparel, and having sat upon the judgment seat, harangued them. And the people called aloud, The voice of God, and not of man. And immediately the messenger of the Lord struck him, because he gave not the glory to God: and eaten by worms, he expired.

Already were ye satisfied, already were ye rich, without us ye reigned; and I would ye also reigned, that we also might reign together with you.

For thou sayest, That I am rich, and have abounded, and have need of nothing; and thou knowest not that thou art wretched, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked;

And the servants of Achish will say to him, Is not this David king of the land? will they not answer to this in dances, saying, Saul struck against his thousands and David against his ten thousands?

And the women will answer, playing, and they will say, Saul smote with his thousand and David with his ten thousands.

Is not this David which they will answer to him in dances, saying, Saul struck his thousands and David his ten thousands?

And Elijah will say to the people, I was left alone a prophet to Jehovah; and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty men.

And he will say, Being zealous I was zealous for Jehovah the God of armies: for the sons of Israel forsook thy covenant; they tore down thine altars, and thy prophets they killed with the sword, and I alone shall be left; and they will seek my soul to take it

To the overseer upon the octave, chanting of David. Save, O Jehovah, for the merciful one ceased; for faithfulnesses failed from the sons of men. They will speak vanity each with his neighbor: smooth lips, with a heart and a heart will they speak

And why seest thou the mote which is in thy brother's eye, and the beam in thine eye thou observest not? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let go I will cast out the mote from thine eye: and behold a beam in thine eye. Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam from thine eye, and thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote from thy brother's eye.

And why beholdest thou the dried straw in thy brother's eye, and perceivest not the beam in thine own eye? Or how Canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, suffer that I cast out the mote in thine eye, thyself not beholding the beam in thine eye? O hypocrite, cast out first the beam from thine own eye, and then shalt thou see through to cast out the mote in thy brother's eye.

And if thine eye give thee cause of offence, take it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members be destroyed, and not thy whole body be cast into hell. And if thy right hand give thee cause of offence, cut it off, and cast from thee; for it is profitable to thee, that one of thy members should be destroyed; and not thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Or what man is of you, which, if his son ask bread, he will not give him a stone? And if he ask a fish, he will not give him a serpent?

And shall a son ask bread of any of you a father, will he give him a stone ? and if a fish, for a fish he will not give him a serpent. Or also if he ask an egg, he will not give him a scorpion.

Another parable spake he to them; The kingdom of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of wheaten flour, till the whole was leavened.

And again he said, To what shall I liken the kingdom of God?

And again I say to you, It is of easier labor for a camel to pass through the hole of a needle, than for a rich one to come into the kingdom of God.

It is easier labor for a camel to come through the hole of a needle, than for a rich one to come into the kingdom of God.

For it is easier for a camel to come through the hole of a needle, than for a rich one to come into the kingdom of God.