What can someone do for a loved one that is full of pride and can't admit their mistakes? A loved one that is so full of pride they criticize you for their own faults because their mistakes become obvious. They are living a lie and it is repulsive. It destroys trust. It's ugly. How can this be fixed?
Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, 2 (https://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=47&ch=23&l=2-#x)Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses. 3 (https://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=47&ch=23&l=3-#x)All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not; for they say, and do not. 4 (https://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=47&ch=23&l=4-#x)For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men's shoulders; but with a finger of their own they will not move them. 5 (https://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=47&ch=23&l=5-#x)And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad, and enlarge their fringes.
[5] "Phylacteries": that is, parchments, on which they wrote the ten commandments, and carried them on their foreheads before their eyes: which the Pharisees affected to wear broader than other men; so to seem more zealous for the law.
6 (https://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=47&ch=23&l=6-#x)And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the ѕуηαgσgυєs, 7 (https://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=47&ch=23&l=7-#x)And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi. 8 (https://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=47&ch=23&l=8-#x)But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master; and all you are brethren. 9 (https://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=47&ch=23&l=9-#x)And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven. 10 (https://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=47&ch=23&l=10-#x)Neither be ye called masters; for one is your master, Christ.
[9] "Call none your father upon earth": Neither be ye called masters. The meaning is that our Father in heaven is incomparably more to be regarded, than any father upon earth: and no master to be followed, who would lead us away from Christ. But this does not hinder but that we are by the law of God to have a due respect both for our parents and spiritual fathers, (1 Cor. 4. 15) and for our masters and teachers.
11 (https://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=47&ch=23&l=11-#x)He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant.
12 (https://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=47&ch=23&l=12-#x)And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
13 (https://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=47&ch=23&l=13-#x)But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men, for you yourselves do not enter in; and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter. 14 (https://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=47&ch=23&l=14-#x)Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: because you devour the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment. 15 (https://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=47&ch=23&l=15-#x)Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you go round about the sea and the land to make one proselyte; and when he is made, you make him the child of hell twofold more than yourselves.