Judging Others

(A)Do not judge so that you will not be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and [a](B)by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. Why do you (C)look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? (D)Or how [b]can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 7:2 Lit by what measure you measure
  2. Matthew 7:4 Lit will

`Judge not, that ye may not be judged,

for in what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged, and in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you.

`And why dost thou behold the mote that [is] in thy brother's eye, and the beam that [is] in thine own eye dost not consider?

or, how wilt thou say to thy brother, Suffer I may cast out the mote from thine eye, and lo, the beam [is] in thine own eye?

Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

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