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→‎Chapter 6: v.42 has many political overtones, but it is complete now and that finishes this chapter, before sunrise!
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|Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.
 
|Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.
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|How can you tell your friend, 'Sir, let me correct your trivial flaw, when you do not focus on your bigger problem?  You deceiver, fix your own problem and then you'll be able to focus better on correcting your friend.
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|"hypocrite" is from ὑποκριτής, which really means "actor" or "pretender"; perhaps "deceiver" is best here, as "hypocrite" is often misused politically against Christians.
 
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|For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
 
|For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
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|A good tree does not yield bad fruit, nor does a bad tree produce good fruit.
 
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|A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
 
|A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
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|A good man brings forth out of the treasure of his heart what is good; an evil man brings forth from his evil treasure what is evil, because his mouth speaks from the overflowing of his heart.
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|Use "overflowing" rather than "abundance" here?  How about "surplus", a more economic term?
 
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