Matthew 7:3
1 “Do not judge, or you will be judged.
2 For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye?
5 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.
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 considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
- WEB
- Why do you see the speck 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 that is in the eye of thy brother, but observest not the beam that is in thine eye?
- BLB
- And why do you look at the splinter that [is] in the eye of your brother, but not notice the beam in your [own] eye?
- ÅB
- «Hvorfor ser du flisen i din brors øye, men legger ikke merke til bjelken i ditt eget?
- OTB
- Hvorfor ser du flisen i din brors øye, men merker ikke bjelken i ditt eget øye?
- B1930
- 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 8:7–9
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 contextGalatians 6:1
Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him with a spirit of gentleness. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.
Read in contextLuke 6:41–42
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 12:5–6
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 contextLuke 18:11
The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
Read in contextPsalms 50:16–21
To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
Read in context2 Chronicles 28:9–10
But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.
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