Matthew 7:4

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“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?”

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BSBPD

“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?”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me cast out the mote out of thine eye; and lo, the beam is in thine own eye?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“or, how wilt thou say to thy brother, Suffer I may cast out the mote from thine eye, and lo, the beam <FI>is<Fi> in thine own eye?”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Matthew 7:4 — 2 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Proverbs 26:7Like lame legs hanging limp is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
  2. Matthew 23:24You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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