Luke 6:42
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.
Note Literally How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother
Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye.
Or how can you tell your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye.
Or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me cast out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- hypocrite
- Luke 13:15; Matthew 23:13–15; Acts 8:21; Acts 13:10
- cast
- Luke 22:32; Psalm 50:16–21; Psalm 51:9–13; Proverbs 18:17; Matthew 26:75; Acts 2:38; Acts 9:9–20; Romans 2:1, 21–29; 2 Corinthians 5:18; 1 Thessalonians 2:10–12; Philemon 1:10, 11
- see
- Matthew 6:22, 23; 2 Timothy 2:21; 2 Peter 1:9; Revelation 3:17, 18