Thematic Bible: Inconsistency in religious life general marks of


Thematic Bible



But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, "If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force the Gentiles to live like Jews?"

therefore you who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?


Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?

Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach.



From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters.


If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, keep warm and eat well," but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it?




Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge someone else. For on whatever grounds you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.


"Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do what I tell you?


But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?


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