Luke 6:41
39 Jesus also told them a parable: “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?
40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.
Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
42 How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
43 No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
- KJV
- And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
- WEB
- Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?
- ASV
- And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother`s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
- DARBY
- But why lookest thou on the mote which is in the eye of thy brother, but perceivest not the beam which is in thine own eye?
- BLB
- And why do you look at the splinter that [is] in the eye of your brother, but not notice the beam that [is] in [your] own eye?
- ÅB
- Og hvorfor ser du splinten i din brors øye, men bjelken i ditt eget øye blir du ikke var?
- OTB
- Hvorfor ser du flisen i din brors øye og legger ikke merke til bjelken i ditt eget øye?
- B1930
- Og hvorfor ser du splinten i din brors øie, men bjelken i ditt eget øie blir du ikke var?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
John 8:7
When they continued to question Him, He straightened up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her.”
Read in contextJames 1:24
and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
Read in contextRomans 2:1
You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on another. For on whatever grounds you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.
Read in contextRomans 2:21–24
you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?
Read in contextMatthew 7:3–5
Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
Read in context2 Samuel 12:5–7
David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
Read in contextJeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Read in contextJohn 8:40–44
But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham never did such a thing.
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