Matthew 7:4-5
Man's Way of Judging
4 How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
1 John 1:9
God is Perfectly Faith and Gives Perfect Justice
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
Matthew 5:48
Be Perfect
48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
1 Peter 1:15-16
Be Holy
15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
Luke 18:19
Only God is Good
19 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone.
1 Peter 3:18-21 (KJV)
Jesus Died for the Unjust
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Romans 7:7-21
Man's Sinful Nature
7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. 9 Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. 10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
John 14:6
Believing in The Truth Gets Us to God
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
God wants us to treat our fellow man fairly...He wants us to love them, including our enemies...Does other men and women sometimes make life seem unfair through your eyes?...Throughout the Bible, God expects man to treat his fellow man as fair...Solomon writes in his Proverbs, about injustices, and often refers to unjust weights in dishonesty...And we read about the scales of injustice in some of the verses from the Prophets Micah, Amos, and Hosea...
When we believe that God is the only One who is perfect, the only One who is holy, and the only One who is good -then it is easier to believe that He is perfectly faithful...And will sooner or later He will show us perfection in His judgment...Being Perfect and the Only One who is good, we better see that He is Absolutely moral...Man is not...So we need not only a loving judge, but also some outside help -if our goal is to get to heaven with the Perfect One...I think most believers think that justice will be done, and justice for all will also happen...
God gives perfect justice...Since man has a sinful nature, we need this outside help and -it comes from His Son...St. Peter tells us that Jesus died for us -the unjust...
I think it is easier for me to see and point out the unjust that others do, while not seeing my own injustices...Jesus reminds me that I am a hypocrite when I do those things...And it seems easy to forget this hypocritical view on my own issues, while at the same time it is very easy to remember this view -when I see others and start thinking this, that, and the other about others..In essence I am and often judge others with my thoughts...I very much understand Paul's dilemma when he writes to the Romans about his and man's sinful nature...Who will give us this help, who will give us this something in our nature that we lack, or as St. Paul says who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?...
St. Peter and St. Paul are both right in praising God for giving us His Son Jesus that He died for our sins and that will bring us closer to His Father...Thanks be to God who delivers us through Jesus Christ our LORD...When we understand what these two Great Saints understood, that when we believe in Jesus and see Him as the Truth...Then we realize that He is the Only Way and the Life we need to live like and by -to get us to heaven with Him and His Father...
Jesus is the help we need and the One who restores the Spirit in us...