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The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be filled with light… Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not of darkness.
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Hear ye indeed, but understand not; see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
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For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall also be judged:… first cast the beam out of thine own eye; then shalt thou see clearly.
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And why beholdest thou the mote which is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam in thine own eye?
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If ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
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All that watch for iniquity are cut off: that make a man an offender for a word...
for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
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For if these things [diligence, faith, virtue knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity] be in you and abound, they make you that ye shall be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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He that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off.
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Thou shalt not wrest judgment;
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Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord.
- [in Paul’s epistles] are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do the other scriptures unto their own destruction.
- 2 Peter 3꞉16 (No prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation…holy men spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 2 Peter 1꞉20-21)
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thou shalt not respect persons,
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Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?
For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
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neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
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Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil…which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him.
- Then answered the LORD, …wilt thou also disannul my judgment, wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
- Job 40꞉8
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Bring therefore fruits meet for repentance. And think not to say within yourselves, we have Abraham for our Father…
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They sit before thee as my people, and they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after much covetousness.
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