Thematic Bible: Inconsistency in religious life general marks of


Thematic Bible



As soon as I saw that they were not walking uprightly in the spirit of the Good News, I said to Peter, before them all, "If you, though you are a Jew, live as a Gentile does, and not as a Jew, how can you make the Gentiles follow Jewish customs?

you then who teach your fellow man, do you refuse to teach yourself? You who cry out against stealing, are you yourself a thief?


And why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye, and not notice the beam which is in your own eye?

Therefore do and observe everything that they command you; but do not imitate their lives, for though they tell others what to do, they do not do it themselves.



Out of the same mouth there proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, this ought not to be.


Suppose a Christian brother or sister is poorly clad or lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, "I wish you well; keep yourselves warm and well fed," and yet you do not give them what they need; what is the use of that?




You are therefore without excuse, O man, whoever you are who sit in judgement upon others. For when you pass judgement on your fellow man, you condemn yourself; for you who sit in judgement upon others are guilty of the same misdeeds;


"And why do you all call me 'Master, Master' and yet not do what I tell you?


If a child is circumcised even on a Sabbath day, are you bitter against me because I have restored a man to perfect health on a Sabbath day?