John 8:7 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

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¹ Do not judge, that you may not be judged. ² For, just as you judge others, you will yourselves be judged, and the measure that you mete will be meted out to you. ³ 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? ⁴ 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? ⁵ 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.

²⁵ Alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are filled with the results of greed and self-indulgence. ²⁶ You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may become clean as well. ²⁷ Alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed look fair outside, while inside they are filled with dead men's bones and all kinds of filth. ²⁸ It is the same with you. Outwardly, and to others, you have the look of religious men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and sin.

⁴⁶ "No man ever spoke as he speaks!" they answered.

¹ 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. ² And we know that God's judgment falls unerringly upon those who do them. ³ You who judge those that do such things and yet are yourself guilty of them-do you suppose that you of all men will escape God's judgment?

²¹ Why, then, you teacher of others, do not you teach yourself? Do you preach against stealing, and yet steal? ²² Do you forbid adultery, and yet commit adultery? Do you loathe idols, and yet plunder temples? ²³ Boasting, as you do, of your Law, do you dishonor God by breaking the Law? ²⁴ For, as Scripture says-'The name of God is reviled among the Gentiles because of you'! ²⁵ Circumcision has its value, if you are obeying the Law. But, if you are a breaker of the Law, your circumcision is no better than uncircumcision.

²⁴ While, if all those present use the gift of preaching, and an unbeliever, or a man without the gift, comes in, he is convinced of his sinfulness by them all, he is called to account by them all; ²⁵ The secrets of his heart are revealed, and then, throwing himself on his face, he will worship God, and declare 'God is indeed among you!'

⁶ Let your conversation always be kindly, and seasoned, as it were, with salt; that you may know in each case what answer you ought to give.

¹² God's Message is a living and active power, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing its way till it penetrates soul and spirit--not the joints only but the very marrow--and detecting the inmost thoughts and purposes of the mind. ¹³ There is no created thing that can hide itself from the sight of God. Everything is exposed and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we have to give account.

¹⁶ in his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like 'the sun in the fulness of its power.'

¹⁶ Therefore repent, or else, I will come quickly and contend with such men with words that will cut like a sword.

¹⁵ From his mouth comes a sharp sword, with which 'to smite the nations; and he will rule them with an iron rod.' He 'treads the grapes in the press' of the maddening wine of the Wrath of Almighty God;