Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Jewish » Pride
let your actions therefore show your repentance, and don't pretend to say within yourselves, "we have Abraham for our father:" for I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
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they answered him, we are Abraham's offspring, and were never slaves to any man: why then do you say, "ye shall be made free?"
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they answered him, Abraham is our father. if you were Abraham's children, said Jesus, you would act like Abraham.
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then they reviled him, and said, thou art his disciple; but we are Moses disciples.
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you think you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
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Pride » Examples of » Jewish pride, as the chosen nation
let your actions therefore show your repentance, and don't pretend to say within yourselves, "we have Abraham for our father:" for I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
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they answered him, we are Abraham's offspring, and were never slaves to any man: why then do you say, "ye shall be made free?"
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they answered him, Abraham is our father. if you were Abraham's children, said Jesus, you would act like Abraham.
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then they reviled him, and said, thou art his disciple; but we are Moses disciples.
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you think you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
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Sin » Against knowledge
who knowing the divine rule of right, did not perceive that they who commit such things are worthy of death, and not only they who do the same, but they who give countenance to those that do them.
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if I had not appear'd, and inform'd them, they would have been innocent: but now they have no excuse for their sin.
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he then that knows what is virtuous, and does not practise it, is a criminal.
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because when they knew God, they did not with gratitude glorify him as God, but their reasoning became extravagance, and their minds, void of judgment, were involv'd in darkness.
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Jesus said to them, if you were blind, you would be excusable; but since you own that you see, you stand convicted.
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for if we wilfully apostatize, after having received the knowledge of the truth, it is as a sin for which there is no sacrifice appointed.
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but the servant, who knows his master's will, and prepares not himself, nor executes his orders, shall receive many stripes. whereas he that does not know it, and does things worthy of chastisement, shall receive fewer stripes. for to whom much is given, of him shall much be required, and the more a man has been trusted, the greater will be the demand.
'Tis true, you bear the name of a Jew, you depend upon the law, and boast of your worship: you know the divine will, and what is contrary thereto, having been educated in the law: you think you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, read more.
an instructer of the ignorant, a teacher to the weak, because you have a clear view of the true meaning of the law. you therefore who instruct others don't you instruct yourself? you who preach against stealing, do you steal? you who declaim against adultery, do you commit adultery? you who abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege? and you, who glory in the law, do you dishonour God by the violation of the law?
an instructer of the ignorant, a teacher to the weak, because you have a clear view of the true meaning of the law. you therefore who instruct others don't you instruct yourself? you who preach against stealing, do you steal? you who declaim against adultery, do you commit adultery? you who abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege? and you, who glory in the law, do you dishonour God by the violation of the law?
for it had been better for them, not to have made any profession of the gospel, than after they have embraced it, to abandon the holy injunction, that was delivered to them. but the proverb is exactly verified in them, "the dog is return'd to his own vomit: the sow that was wash'd, is wallowing in the mire."