Matthew 7:4

Or how say to your brother, `Allow me to take the splinter out of your eye,' while the beam is in your own eye?

Weymouth NT (1912)

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 splinter in your brother's eye, and not notice the beam which is in your own eye?

5Hypocrite, first take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to remove the splinter from your brother's eye.

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Cross References

Matthew 23:24You blind guides, straining out the gnat while you gulp down the 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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