Matthew 7:5

Hypocrite! 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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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

4How 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?

6“Do not give what is sacred to dogs; they will turn and maul you. Do not throw your pearls before pigs; they will trample them underfoot.

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Cross References

Matthew 22:18Perceiving their malice, Jesus answered, “Why are you testing me, you hypocrites?

Luke 4:23“Doubtless,” said Jesus, “you will remind me of the saying – ‘Doctor, cure yourself;’ and you will say ‘Do here in your own country all that we have heard that has been done at Capernaum.’

Luke 12:56Hypocrites! You know how to judge of the earth and the sky; how is it, then, that you cannot judge of this time?

Acts 19:15but the wicked spirit answered them, “Jesus I acknowledge, and Paul I know, but you – 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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