Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Proverbs 155. The proverb today is practice what you preach. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. If someone says you should practice what you preach, it means you should behave in the way that you advise or tell or even sometimes scold others to behave. The origin of the phrase comes directly from the Bible, Matthew 23 3. Yeah that's part of the New Testament. So you know as the Matthew, Mark, Luke ,and John. So that's you know when Jesus the one the part that's about Jesus" life. All right. But let's continue. Here's the quote "They preach but do not practice. " All right so that was from Matthew 23 3. They say it was repeated a lot over the centuries but became really popular in the 18th century. And I'm pretty sure Charles Dickens also used it in at least one of his classic novels. Okay Let's , let's take a look at some of the examples here. Example number one. If you don't practice what you preach, you will end up looking like a hypocrite. Yeah. That's pretty much the definition of a hypocrite. Somebody who tells you to behave one way and they don't do it themselves. Yeah. Remember we, we often heard about that around the time that I think Al Gore came out with his documentary " Inconvenient Truth " where he's telling everybody you know, you have to use a lot less electricity, and cut down on CO2 emissions. But yet he had a house that was burning fuel outside around the gate of this big mansion. And he was using 40 times the amount of energy that the average household was using . So in that case that's what we mean. He wasn't practicing what he was preaching. So this is what we mean you got to be careful you should practice what you preach because if you don't you end up , looking like a hypocrite. Okay. Number two here. If you want to be a role model you know, if you want to be some person that other people will follow and respect, you must practice what you preach. Okay. So if you're telling other people behave this way , you have to do it yourself. Okay. And number three here. Many politicians like to tell voters how they should behave , but they rarely practice what they preach. They rarely do it themselves too. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.
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