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Self-righteous


Acts 24:25       New English Translation

25 While Paul was discussing righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became frightened and said, “Go away for now, and when I have an opportunity, I will send for you.”

 

Self-righteous

 

Restricting rules of selfishness imposed by the real me

The part I don’t recognize is much better than my clone

The one I follow day and night for I chose to be free

And that my friend, I prove before the day is done

 

Read my lips. I never lie. My life is an open book

Truth, my friend, resides in here from cover to cover

I am not what you think that I’m rotten to the core

God made me this way, and so don't roll me over

 

I am human, you know, with some flaws here and there

Mostly good and a little bad, but aren’t we all that way

The bible? Well! Is written by men, so there’s wrong everywhere

So I do what appears good to me, and this is for what I pray.

 

Jan Wienen

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