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Have you ever criticised someone for doing something, only to find yourself doing exactly the same thing years later? Sometimes, the behaviour we judge most harshly in others is the very weakness we fail to recognise in ourselves.
In Romans 2:1–3, Paul challenges people who condemn others while practising the same things themselves. Similarly, in Matthew 7:1–5, Jesus uses the illustration of a person trying to remove a speck from another person's eye while having a plank in their own. Both passages expose the danger of self-righteousness. It is easy to recognise dishonesty, pride, irresponsibility or hypocrisy in someone else, but much harder to acknowledge those same tendencies in ourselves.
Sometimes, life changes our circumstances, and we discover that the things we once judged are more complicated than we understood.
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