Matthew 7:5

Hypocrite! first pull the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to pull the splinter out of your brother’s eye.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.

In Context

4Or, how will you say to your brother, Let me pull out the splinter from your eye: and lo; a beam is in your own eye?

6Give not that which is holy to dogs, nor throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and tear you.

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Cross References

Matthew 22:18But Jesus, knowing their wickedness, said to them: Why do you tempt me, hypocrites?

Luke 4:23And he said to them: You will assuredly apply to me this proverb, Physician, heal yourself. Whatever things we have heard were done in Capernaum, do also here in your country.

Luke 12:56Hypocrites, you know how to judge of the face of the earth, and of the heavens; but how is it that you do not judge of this time?

Acts 19:15But the evil spirit answered and said: Jesus I acknowledge, and Paul I know; but who are you?

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 →

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