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Scriptures Referenced
41 “Why do you notice the small piece of dust that is in your friend’s eye,
but you don’t see the big piece of wood that is in your own eye?
42 You say to your friend, ‘Let me get that little piece of dust out of your eye.’ Why do you say this?
Can’t you see that big piece of wood in your own eye?
You are a hypocrite. First, take the wood out of your own eye.
Then you will see clearly to get the dust out of your friend’s eye.
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James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says,
“God opposes the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.”
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5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
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3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
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2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
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26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?”
27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
