Matthew 7:2
For by what criticism ye criticize, ye will be criticized, and by what measure ye measure, it will be measured to you.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
1Do not criticize, that ye may not be criticized.
3And why do thou see the speck in thy brother's eye, but do not notice the beam in thine own eye?
Cross References
Exodus 21:24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
Judges 5:27At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Psalms 18:25With the merciful thou will show thyself merciful. With the perfect man thou will show thyself perfect.
Jeremiah 51:24And I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says LORD.
Mark 4:24And he said to them, Watch what ye hear. By what measure ye measure, it will be measured to you, and to those who hear, it will be added to you.
2 Corinthians 9:6But this, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows in blessings will also reap in blessings.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 7:2-7
The Sermon on the Mount. 1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly… Read the whole commentary →