Matthew 7:5

Hypocrite! 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.

English Majority Text (NT)

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, ‘Permit me to remove the speck from your eye’; and look, there is a plank in your own eye?

6“Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. 1 Ask, Seek, Knock

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Cross References

Matthew 22:18But Jesus, knowing their wickedness, said, “Why do you test Me, you hypocrites?

Luke 4:23He said to them, “You will surely say this proverb to Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in Your hometown.’ ”

Luke 12:56Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the earth and sky, but how is it you do not discern this time?

Acts 19:15But the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, 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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