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To: verga
No we simply understand Matthew 7:6.

LOL! If that were true, you wouldn't even post ANY comments! Sounds like you missed out on the verse BEFORE that one.

    You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. "Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

What you offer is neither pearls nor holy and we aren't dogs or pigs!

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary:

    We must judge ourselves, and judge of our own acts, but not make our word a law to everybody. We must not judge rashly, nor pass judgment upon our brother without any ground. We must not make the worst of people. Here is a just reproof to those who quarrel with their brethren for small faults, while they allow themselves in greater ones. Some sins are as motes, while others are as beams; some as a gnat, others as a camel. Not that there is any sin little; if it be a mote, or splinter, it is in the eye; if a gnat, it is in the throat; both are painful and dangerous, and we cannot be easy or well till they are got out. That which charity teaches us to call but a splinter in our brother's eye, true repentance and godly sorrow will teach us to call a beam in our own. It is as strange that a man can be in a sinful, miserable condition, and not be aware of it, as that a man should have a beam in his eye, and not consider it; but the god of this world blinds their minds. Here is a good rule for reprovers; first reform thyself.

367 posted on 04/01/2014 3:11:22 PM PDT by boatbums (Simul justis et peccator.)
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To: boatbums
You hypocrite...

He's merely a LITERATE insulter; doncha know.

382 posted on 04/01/2014 4:31:50 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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