Y’all must not speak against one another, siblings. Anyone who speaks against a sibling and judges them, speaks against the law, and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck from your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the log in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the log from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck in your brother’s eye.
For I am afraid that when I come, I might not find y’all the way I want, and y’all might not find me as y’all want. Perhaps there will be infighting, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder,
Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old yeast, or with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Then y’all will defile your graven images overlayed with silver, and your images covered in gold. You will scatter them like a menstrual cloth and tell them, “Be gone!”
Meanwhile, a crowd of many thousands had gathered together, so that they were trampling on one other. Jesus began to tell his disciples first, “Y’all beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
In that day, people will throw away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,