16 Bible Verses about Exaggerations
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And a certain scribe came and said to him, Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.
And on an appointed day Herod having put on his royal apparel, and sitting on the tribunal, made a speech to them; and the people shouted, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And an angel of the Lord instantly smote him because he gave not glory to God, and being eaten with worms he expired.
You are already full, you are already enriched; you have reigned without us; and I would that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
For you say, I am rich and have become rich and have need of nothing, and know not that you are miserable, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked.
And why do you see a speck in your brother's eye, and not consider a beam in your own eye? or how will you say to your brother, Let me cast out the speck from your eye, and behold a beam in your own eye? Hypocrite, cast out first the beam from your eye, and then will you see clearly to cast out the speck from your brother's eye.
And why do you see the speck in your brother's eye, and observe not the beam in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, Brother, let me cast out the speck in your eye, and you yourself see not the beam in your own eye? Hypocrite, cast out first the beam from your eye, and then you will see clearly to cast out the speck from your brother's eye.
But if your right eye offends you, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is better for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell. And if your right hand offends you, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is better for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should go into hell.
Or is there any man of you, who, if his son asks bread of him, will give him a stone? or if he asks a fish, will give him a serpent?
And what father is there of you, who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? or if he asks also for a fish, will for a fish give him a serpent? or if he asks also for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
He spoke another parable to them; The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three sata [33 quarts] of flour, till the whole was leavened.
And again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
It is easier for a camel to enter through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.