⁷ But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her."

¹ Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

² We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

³ Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

⁶ At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

⁷ The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

⁴ Don't answer a fool according to his folly, Lest you also be like him.

⁵ Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

¹⁶ But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, That you have taken my covenant on your lips,

¹⁷ Seeing you hate instruction, And throw my words behind you?

¹⁸ When you saw a thief, you consented with him, And have participated with adulterers.

¹⁹ "You give your mouth to evil. You harnesses your tongue for deceit.

²⁰ You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.

¹² For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

¹³ There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

⁶ Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

²¹ You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do you steal?

²² You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

²³ You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?

²⁴ For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written.

²⁵ For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

¹ "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.

² For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

³ Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?

⁴ Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?

⁵ You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

¹⁵ Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with a rod of iron. He treads the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.

¹⁶ Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

¹⁶ He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.

²⁴ But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.

²⁵ And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.

⁴⁶ The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"

²⁵ "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.{TR reads "self-indulgence" instead of "unrighteousness"}

²⁶ You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside of it may become clean also.

²⁷ "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

²⁸ Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

²⁹ Isn't my word like fire? says Yahweh; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

¹⁸ There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, But the tongue of the wise heals.