16 Bible Verses about Exaggerations

And a scribe came up and said to him, "Master, I will follow you wherever you are going!"

As they were going along the road, a man said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go."

Peter said to him, "Master, I am ready to go to prison and to death with you!"

So a day was fixed and on it Herod, dressed in his robes of state, took his seat on his throne in the theater, and made them an address, and the people shouted in applause, "It is a god's voice, not a man's!" But the angel of the Lord struck him down immediately, because he did not give the honor to God; and he was eaten by worms and died.

Are you satisfied already? Have you become rich already? Have you entered your kingdom without waiting for us? I wish you had entered it, so that we might share it with you!

Because you say, "I am rich, I have become wealthy, I need nothing," and you do not know that it is you that are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked,

Why do you keep looking at the speck in your brother's eye, and pay no attention to the beam that is in your own? How can you say to your brother, 'Just let me get that speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a beam in your own? You hypocrite! First get the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see to get the speck out of your brother's eye.

Why do you keep looking at the speck in your brother's eye, and pay no attention to the beam that is in your own? How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, just let me get that speck out of your eye,' when you cannot see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First get the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see to get out the speck in your brother's eye.

But if your right eye makes you fall, tear it out and throw it away, for you might better lose one part of your body than have it all thrown into the pit! If your right hand makes you fall, cut it off and throw it away, for you might better lose one part of your body than have it all go down to the pit!

Which of you men when his son asks him for some bread will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a snake?

Which of you fathers, if his son asks him for a fish will give him a snake instead? Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

Another figure which he used with them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took and buried in a bushel of flour until it had all risen."

And he went on, "To what can I compare the Kingdom of God?

And again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to get through a needle's eye than for a rich man to get into the Kingdom of God!"

It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into the Kingdom of God!"

It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into the Kingdom of God!"