Luke 6:41

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And why do you take note of the grain of dust in your brother's eye, but take no note of the bit of wood which is in your eye?

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  • John 8:7 : 7 But when they went on with their questions, he got up and said to them, Let him among you who is without sin be the first to send a stone at her.
  • Jas 1:24 : 24 For after looking at himself he goes away, and in a short time he has no memory of what he was like.
  • John 8:40-44 : 40 But now you have a desire to put me to death, a man who has said to you what is true, as I had it from God: Abraham did not do that. 41 You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God. 42 Jesus said to them, If God was your Father you would have love for me, because it was from God I came and am here. I did not come of myself, but he sent me. 43 Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching. 44 You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.
  • Rom 2:1 : 1 So you have no reason, whoever you are, for judging: for in judging another you are judging yourself, for you do the same things.
  • Rom 2:21-24 : 21 You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take what is not his, do you take what is not yours? 22 You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God? 23 You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law? 24 For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings.
  • 2 Sam 12:5-7 : 5 And David was full of wrath against that man; and he said to Nathan, By the living Lord, death is the right punishment for the man who has done this: 6 And he will have to give back four times the value of the lamb, because he has done this and because he had no pity. 7 And Nathan said to David, You are that man. The Lord God of Israel says, I made you king over Israel, putting holy oil on you, and I kept you safe from the hands of Saul;
  • 2 Sam 20:9-9 : 9 And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well, my brother? And with his right hand he took him by the hair of his chin to give him a kiss. 10 But Amasa did not see danger from the sword which was now in Joab's left hand, and Joab put it through his stomach so that his inside came out on to the earth, and he did not give him another blow. So Joab and his brother Abishai went on after Sheba, the son of Bichri.
  • 2 Sam 20:20-21 : 20 And Joab, answering her, said, Far, far be it from me to be a cause of death or destruction; 21 Not so: but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba, son of Bichri, by name, has taken up arms against the king, against David: give up this man only, and I will go away from the town. And the woman said to Joab, His head will be dropped over the wall to you.
  • 1 Kgs 2:32 : 32 And the Lord will send back his blood on his head, because of the attack he made on two men more upright and better than himself, putting them to the sword without my father's knowledge; even Abner, the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
  • 1 Chr 21:6 : 6 But Levi and Benjamin were not numbered among them, for Joab was disgusted with the king's order.
  • Ps 36:2 : 2 For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.
  • Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?
  • Ezek 18:28 : 28 Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate.
  • Matt 7:3-5 : 3 And why do you take note of the grain of dust in your brother's eye, but take no note of the bit of wood which is in your eye? 4 Or how will you say to your brother, Let me take out the grain of dust from your eye, when you yourself have a bit of wood in your eye? 5 You false one, first take out the bit of wood from your eye, then will you see clearly to take out the grain of dust from your brother's eye.

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