7 Bible Verses about Inconsistency
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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?
Therefore practice and lay to heart everything that they tell preach but do not practice.
When a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath to prevent the Law of Moses from being broken, how can you be angry with me for making a man sound and well on a Sabbath?
Why, then, you teacher of others, do not you teach yourself? Do you preach against stealing, and yet steal? Do you forbid adultery, and yet commit adultery? Do you loathe idols, and yet plunder temples? Boasting, as you do, of your Law, do you dishonor God by breaking the Law?
But, when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face; for he stood self-condemned. Before certain persons came from James, he had been in the habit of eating with the Gentile converts; but, when they came, he began to withdraw and hold aloof, for fear of offending those who still held to circumcision. The rest of the Jewish converts were guilty of the same hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led away by it.read more.
But, when I saw that they were not dealing straightforwardly with the Truth of the Good News, I said to Peter, before them all, "If you, who were born a Jew, adopt Gentile customs, instead of Jewish, why are you trying to compel the Gentile converts to adopt Jewish customs?"
They profess to know God, but by their actions they disown him. They are degraded and self-willed; and, as far as anything good is concerned, they are utterly worthless.
My Brothers, what is the good of a man's saying that he has faith, if he does not prove it by actions? Can such faith save him? Suppose some Brother or Sister should be in want of clothes and of daily bread, And one of you were to say to them--"Go, and peace be with you; find warmth and food for yourselves," and yet you were not to give them the necessaries of life, what good would it be to them?
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Inconsistency » General marks of » Brings reproach upon the cause of truth
There will be many, too, who will follow their licentious courses, and cause the Way of the Truth to be maligned.
Boasting, as you do, of your Law, do you dishonor God by breaking the Law? For, as Scripture says-'The name of God is reviled among the Gentiles because of you'!
Inconsistency » General marks of » Preaching and not practising
But, when I saw that they were not dealing straightforwardly with the Truth of the Good News, I said to Peter, before them all, "If you, who were born a Jew, adopt Gentile customs, instead of Jewish, why are you trying to compel the Gentile converts to adopt Jewish customs?"
Why, then, you teacher of others, do not you teach yourself? Do you preach against stealing, and yet steal?
Inconsistency » General marks of » Uncharitableness
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?
Therefore practice and lay to heart everything that they tell preach but do not practice.
Inconsistency » General marks of » The double tongue
The man who says 'I know Jesus,' but does not lay his commands to heart, is a liar, and the Truth has no place in him;
From the very same mouth come blessings and curses! My Brothers, it is not right that this should be so.
Inconsistency » General marks of » Selfishness
Suppose some Brother or Sister should be in want of clothes and of daily bread, And one of you were to say to them--"Go, and peace be with you; find warmth and food for yourselves," and yet you were not to give them the necessaries of life, what good would it be to them?
Inconsistency » Instances of » Jehu
Inconsistency » Instances of » In accusing jesus of violating the sabbath
But that is why Moses has instituted circumcision among you- -not, indeed, that it began with him, but with our ancestors--and that is why you circumcise even on a Sabbath. When a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath to prevent the Law of Moses from being broken, how can you be angry with me for making a man sound and well on a Sabbath?
Inconsistency » General marks of » False profession
They profess to know God, but by their actions they disown him. They are degraded and self-willed; and, as far as anything good is concerned, they are utterly worthless.
Inconsistency » General marks of » Harsh judgment
Therefore you have nothing to say in your own defense, whoever you are who set yourself up as a judge. In judging others you condemn yourself, for you who set yourself up as a judge do the very same things.
Inconsistency » General marks of » Religious talk
Inconsistency » General marks of » Legalism
When a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath to prevent the Law of Moses from being broken, how can you be angry with me for making a man sound and well on a Sabbath?
Inconsistency » Instances of » The jews, in oppressing the poor
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