16 Bible Verses about Exaggerations
Most Relevant Verses
And a Teacher of the Law came up to him, and said: "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go."
And, while they were on their way, a man said to Jesus: "I will follow you wherever you go."
"Master," said Peter, "with you I am ready to go both to prison and to death."
On an appointed day Herod, wearing his state-robes, seated himself on his throne, and delivered an oration. The people kept shouting: "It is the voice of God, and not of a man!" Instantly an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give God the glory; and he was attacked with worms, and died.
Are you all so soon satisfied? Are you so soon rich? Have you begun to reign without us? Would indeed that you had, so that we also might reign with you!
You say 'I am rich and have grown rich, and I want for nothing,' and you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, naked!
And why do you look at the straw in your brother's eye, while you pay no attention at all to the beam in yours? How will you say to your brother 'Let me take out the straw from your eye,' when all the time there is a beam in your own? Hypocrite! Take out the beam from your own eye first, and then you will see clearly how to take out the straw from your brother's.
And why do you look at the straw in your brother's eye, while you pay no attention at all to the beam in your own? How can you say to your brother 'Brother, let me take out the straw in your eye,' while you yourself do not see the beam in your own? Hypocrite! Take out the beam from your own eye first, and then you will see clearly how to take out the straw in your brother's.
If your right eye is a snare to you, take it out and throw it away. It would be best for you to lose one part of your body, and not to have the whole of it thrown into the Pit. And, if your right hand is a snare to you, cut it off and throw it away. It would be best for you to lose one part of your body, and not to have the whole of it go down to the Pit.
Who among you, when his son asks him for a loaf, will give him a stone, Or when he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
What father among you, 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?
This was another parable which Jesus related-- "The Kingdom of Heaven is like some yeast which a woman took and covered up in three pecks of flour, until the whole had risen."
I say again, it is easier for a camel to get through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven!"
It is easier for a camel to get through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God."
It is easier, indeed, for a camel to get through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God!"
