16 Bible Verses about Exaggerations

And a scribe, coming near, said to Him, "Teacher, I will follow Thee wheresoever Thou mayst go."

And, as they were journeying in the way, a certain one said to Him, "I will follow Thee wheresoever Thou goest."

And he said to Him, "Lord, I am ready to go with Thee, both to prison and to death."

And, on a set day, Herod, having put on royal apparel, and seating himself on the judgment seat, made a speech to them. And the people were shouting, "It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!" And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he did not give God the glory; and, having been eaten by worms, he expired.

Have ye already become satisfied? Did ye already become rich? Did ye reign without us? I wish, at least, that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing'; and do not know that you are the wretched one, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked!

"And why do you behold the mote that is in your brother's eye, but consider not the beam in your own eye? Or how will you say to your brother, 'Permit me to cast out the mote out of your eye;' and, behold, the beam is in your own eye? Hypocrite! Cast out first the beam out of your own eye; and then you will see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother's eye.

"And why do you behold the mote that is in your brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'Brother, suffer me to cast out the mote that is in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the beam in your own eye? Hypocrite! cast first the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to cast out the mote that is in your brother's eye.

"And, if your right eye is causing you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you; for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not your whole body be cast into Hell. "And, if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you; for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not your whole body go away into Hell.

Or what man is there of you who, if his son shall ask him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he shall ask for a fish, will give him a serpent?

And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask bread, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he, instead of a fish, give him a serpent? or if he shall ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion?

Another parable He spake to them: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like leaven, which a woman, taking, hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened."

And again He said, "To what shall I liken the Kingdom of God?

And again I say to you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."

for it is easier for a camel to enter through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."