Matthew 7:4

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Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me get the speck out of your eye,’ when there is a log in your own eye?

Cross References

Proverbs 26:7

Like the legs which are useless to the lame, So is a proverb in the mouth of a fool [who cannot learn from its wisdom].

Matthew 23:24

You [spiritually] blind guides, who strain out a gnat [consuming yourselves with miniscule matters] and swallow a camel [ignoring and violating God’s precepts]! [Lev 11:24; 27:30; Mic 6:8]

Matthew 7:3

Why do you look at the [insignificant] speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice and acknowledge the [egregious] log that is in your own eye?

Matthew 7:5

You hypocrite (play-actor, pretender), first get the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

Luke 6:42

How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, allow me to take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite (play actor, pretender), first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.