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NASB | Luke 6:42 "Or how can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 6:42 "How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, allow me to take out the speck that is in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite (play actor, pretender), first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye. |
Subject: What do you think? |
Bible Note: Prayon Let me ask you one question, how long should a church allow a person to attend 'member in good standing' unchallenged when the person is in open and unrepented sin? If the church had done nothing could it have been seen as contributing to or enabling the sin to continue? Unless sinners are made to confront their sin they may never repent. I don't see anywhere that scripture tells us not to judge, it does caution us about being hypocritical and applying one standard for ourselves and another for everyone else. If a person is running an abortion clinic out of the house should the church allow it. How about a training center for terrorists? How about a house of ill repute? Was it all about appearance and I do think appearance should play some part, “Don’t let you good be spoken evil of” but it is also allowing or actually helping the sin to be committed. The couple as I understand it was given two options. One, stop sinning (by getting married) or two, continue sinning but move out. Clearly if they had repented of their sin and corrected the situation the church was more than willing to allow them to remain in the house. So forgiveness was available to them. EdB |