Matthew 7:3

World English Bible (2000)

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?

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  • John 8:7-9 : 7 But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her." 8 Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground. 9 They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
  • Gal 6:1 : 1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.
  • Luke 18:11 : 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
  • 2 Sam 12:5-6 : 5 David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this is worthy to die! 6 He shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!"
  • 2 Chr 28:9-9 : 9 But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, "Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven. 10 Now you purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondservants and bondmaids for yourselves. Aren't there even with you trespasses of your own against Yahweh your God?
  • Ps 50:16-21 : 16 But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips, 17 since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you? 18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers. 19 "You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit. 20 You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son. 21 You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
  • Luke 6:41-42 : 41 Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye? 42 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.

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  • Matt 7:4-6
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    4 Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?

    5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

    6 "Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

  • Luke 6:41-43
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    41 Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?

    42 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.

    43 For there is no good tree that brings forth rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that brings forth good fruit.

  • Matt 7:1-2
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    1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.

    2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

  • Luke 12:57
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    57 Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right?

  • Luke 6:37
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    37 Don't judge, and you won't be judged. Don't condemn, and you won't be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

  • Matt 6:22-23
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    22 "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

    23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

  • Matt 5:23-24
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    23 "If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

    24 leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

  • John 7:24
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    24 Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

  • Luke 17:3
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    3 Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

  • Mark 9:47
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    47 If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,

  • Matt 18:9
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    9 If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.

  • Luke 11:34-35
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    34 The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

    35 Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn't darkness.

  • Rom 14:10
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    10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

  • Jas 4:11
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    11 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

  • Matt 5:29
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    29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

  • Rom 2:1
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    1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

  • Jas 2:4
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    4 haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

  • Matt 18:15
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    15 "If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

  • Rom 14:13
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    13 Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.

  • Gal 6:1-2
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    1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.

    2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 6:7-8
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    7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

    8 No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.

  • Matt 6:1
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    1 "Be careful that you don't do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

  • Luke 6:39
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    39 He spoke a parable to them. "Can the blind guide the blind? Won't they both fall into a pit?

  • Jas 5:9
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    9 Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

  • Matt 23:26
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    26 You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

  • Jas 1:23-24
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    23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;

    24 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

  • 1 Cor 11:31
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    31 For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged.

  • Lev 19:17
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    17 "'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

  • John 9:41
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    41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.

  • Matt 7:12
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    12 Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

  • Job 15:12
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    12 Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

  • 1 Cor 5:12
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    12 For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Don't you judge those who are within?

  • Matt 12:37
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    37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."

  • Phil 2:4
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    4 each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

  • Jer 7:5
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    5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

  • Matt 5:38
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    38 "You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.'

  • Rom 2:3
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    3 Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

  • Matt 18:35
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    35 So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."

  • Matt 23:24
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    24 You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!