For this I am under obligation to do,
These things are necessary to do.
Woe to me
Am I teaching mans doctrine?
Woe to me
For my lips are in vain
I continue to worship
Trying to keep my heart close to the quality of honor
Here I became a Hypocrite
disregarding the weightier matters of the law
Hypocrite,
Where is your justice?
Where is your mercy?
Woe to you
Where is your faith?
I have every herb of the garden to show you,
But I can't find the love of God to give you.
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Rayne (Pseudonym) (
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Exactly I relate good work
Thanks!!
Good write Naomi. The way I see that verse, it's not meaning we're hypocrites. But our righteousness has to exceed (be better than, be more than) the Pharisees. Yet Jesus could mean the TYPE of righteousness, and be saying 'Don't be SELF-righteous like the Pharisees. No-one will get into heaven by that means'!
That's how I see it. I don't wish to paraphrase the Bible into 'what I think it means' though.
But that's it - they were mucking about with tithing their herbs, being so concerned about that alone, that Jesus calls them hypocrites for it!
Yea I wrote this more as a self-check, to step back and call myself out on the way I was going in life. Maybe even a little fear in here, but thank you!
Beautiful writing, Rayne. You are very talented.
Thank you so much
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