7 Bible Verses about Inconsistency

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Matthew 7:3

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?

Matthew 23:3

So do everything they tell you, and observe it all, but do not do as they do, for they talk but do not act.

John 7:23

But if a person undergoes circumcision on a Sabbath, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, are you angry at me for making a man perfectly well on a Sabbath?

Romans 2:21-23

Will you warn men against adultery, and yet practice it yourself? Will you pretend to detest idols, and yet rob their temples? Will you boast of the Law and yet dishonor God by breaking it?

Galatians 2:11-14

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, for his own conduct condemned him. For until some people came from James, he used to eat with the heathen, but after they came, he began to draw back and hold aloof, for fear of the party of circumcision. The other Jewish Christians followed his example in concealing their real views, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their pose.read more.
But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the good news, I said to Cephas, right before them all, "If you live like a heathen, and not like a Jew, though you are a Jew yourself, why should you try to make the heathen live like Jews?"

James 2:14-16

My brothers, what is the good of a man's saying he has faith, if he has no good deeds to show? Can faith save him? If some brother or sister has no clothes and has not food enough for a day, and one of you says to them, "Goodbye, keep warm and have plenty to eat," without giving them the necessaries of life, what good does it do?

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Inconsistency » General marks of » Brings reproach upon the cause of truth

2 Peter 2:2

Many people will follow their immoral ways, and they will cause the true way to be maligned.

Romans 2:23-24

Will you boast of the Law and yet dishonor God by breaking it? For, as the Scripture says, the very name of God is abused among the heathen, because of you!

Inconsistency » General marks of » Preaching and not practising

Galatians 2:14

But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the good news, I said to Cephas, right before them all, "If you live like a heathen, and not like a Jew, though you are a Jew yourself, why should you try to make the heathen live like Jews?"

Inconsistency » General marks of » Uncharitableness

Matthew 7:3

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?

Matthew 23:3

So do everything they tell you, and observe it all, but do not do as they do, for they talk but do not act.

Inconsistency » General marks of » The double tongue

Inconsistency » General marks of » Selfishness

James 2:15-16

If some brother or sister has no clothes and has not food enough for a day, and one of you says to them, "Goodbye, keep warm and have plenty to eat," without giving them the necessaries of life, what good does it do?

Inconsistency » Instances of » Jehu

Inconsistency » Instances of » In accusing jesus of violating the sabbath

John 7:22-23

Yet Moses gave you the rite of circumcision??ot that it began with Moses but with your forefathers??nd you practice it even on the Sabbath. But if a person undergoes circumcision on a Sabbath, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, are you angry at me for making a man perfectly well on a Sabbath?

Inconsistency » General marks of » False profession

Inconsistency » General marks of » Harsh judgment

Romans 2:1

Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, if you pose as a judge, for when you pass judgment on someone else, you are condemning yourself, for you, who sit in judgment, do the very same things yourself.

Inconsistency » General marks of » Religious talk

Luke 6:46

Why do you call me: 'Lord! Lord!' and not do what I tell you?

Inconsistency » General marks of » Legalism

John 7:23

But if a person undergoes circumcision on a Sabbath, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, are you angry at me for making a man perfectly well on a Sabbath?

Inconsistency » Instances of » The jews, in oppressing the poor

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