Matthew 7:4

How will you say to your friend “Let me take out the speck from your eye,” when all the time there is a plank in your own?

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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

3Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your friend’s eye, while you pay no attention at all to the plank of wood in yours?

5Hypocrite! Take out the plank from your own eye first, and then you will see clearly how to take out the speck from your friend’s.

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Cross References

Matthew 23:24You blind guides, to strain out a gnat and to 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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