7 Bible Verses about Inconsistency

Many people will follow their immoral ways, and because of them the true Way will be abused,

You who boast about the law, do you by breaking it dishonor God? For, as the Scripture says, the name of God is abused among the heathen because of you.

But when I saw that they were not living up to the truth of the good news, I said to Cephas, and that before them all, "If you are living like a heathen and not like a Jew, although you are a Jew yourself, why do you try to make the heathen live like Jews?"

you who teach others, do you not teach yourself too? You who preach that men should not steal, do you steal yourself?

Why do you keep watching the tiny speck in your brother's eye, but pay no attention to the girder in your own?

So everything they tell you, do and practice, but stop doing what they do, for they preach but do not practice.

Whoever says, "I know Him," but does not practice obedience to His commands is a liar, and there is no truth in his heart;

Out of the same mouth flow blessing and cursing! It ought not to be like this, my brothers.

If some brother or sister is thinly clad and has no food for the day, and one of you says to him, "Blessings on you, keep warm, eat until you have aplenty," without giving him the things that are needed for the body, what good does it do?

Then Moses gave you the rite of circumcision -- not that it had its origin with Moses but with your earlier forefathers -- and you circumcise a male child even on the Sabbath. Well, if a male child undergoes circumcision on the Sabbath, to keep the law of Moses from being broken, are you angry with me for making a man perfectly well on the Sabbath?

They profess to know God, but by their actions they disown Him; they are detestable, disobedient, and useless for anything good.

Therefore, you have no excuse, whoever you are, who pose as a judge of others, for when you pass judgment on another, you condemn yourself, for you who pose as a judge are practicing the very same sins yourself.

"So why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' but do not practice what I tell you?

Well, if a male child undergoes circumcision on the Sabbath, to keep the law of Moses from being broken, are you angry with me for making a man perfectly well on the Sabbath?