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How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?

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

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(A)Or how [a]can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the [b]speck out of your eye,’ and look, the log is in your own eye?

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 7:4 Lit will
  2. Matthew 7:4 Or splinter

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye?

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A Simple Guide for Behavior

1-5 “Don’t pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults—unless, of course, you want the same treatment. That critical spirit has a way of boomeranging. It’s easy to see a smudge on your neighbor’s face and be oblivious to the ugly sneer on your own. Do you have the nerve to say, ‘Let me wash your face for you,’ when your own face is distorted by contempt? It’s this whole traveling road-show mentality all over again, playing a holier-than-thou part instead of just living your part. Wipe that ugly sneer off your own face, and you might be fit to offer a washcloth to your neighbor.

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