Bible: Matthew 7:1-5; 18:15-20

Do Not Judge

7:1Do not judge so that you will not be judged. 1  7:2 For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive. 2  7:3 Why 3  do you see the speck 4  in your brother’s eye, but fail to see 5  the beam of wood 6  in your own? 7:4 Or how can you say 7  to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while there is a beam in your own? 7:5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

18:15 Then Sarah lied, saying, “I did not laugh,” because she was afraid. But the Lord said, “No! You did laugh.” 1 

Abraham Pleads for Sodom

18:16 When the men got up to leave, 2  they looked out over 3  Sodom. (Now 4  Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.) 5  18:17 Then the Lord said, “Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? 6  18:18 After all, Abraham 7  will surely become 8  a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth will pronounce blessings on one another 9  using his name. 18:19 I have chosen him 10  so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep 11  the way of the Lord by doing 12  what is right and just. Then the Lord will give 13  to Abraham what he promised 14  him.”

18:20 So the Lord said, “The outcry against 15  Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant 16 

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