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Matthew 7:4

Or how will you say to your brother, ‘Permit me to remove the speck from your eye’; and look, there is a plank in your own eye?

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

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?

In Context

3And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not notice the plank in your own eye?

5Hypocrite! First remove the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

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Cross References

Matthew 23:24Blind guides, you who strain out a gnat, but swallow a camel!

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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