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One merchant points at another’s tilted scale while an older woman returns an overpaid coin and both merchants confront their own dishonesty.
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Romans 2:1-5

The Accuser and His Own Scale

Truth, Conscience, and the Heart · Romans 2

Story guide: Disclosed visual essay. Paul warns that the person who judges another while practicing the same things condemns himself. God’s kindness, patience, and forbearance lead toward repentance rather than self-excusing accusation.

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1Therefore you are without excuse, O man, every one who judges. For in passing judgment on another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.

2And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

3But do you suppose this, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?

4Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is leading you to repentance?

5But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and the revelation of God’s righteous judgment,

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