Matthew 7:3

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Matthew 7:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 “Do not judge, or you will be judged.

2 For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

3 Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?

4 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?

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

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Luke 6:41

Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?

Luke 6:42

How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.

2 Samuel 12:5

David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!

2 Samuel 12:6

Because he has done this thing and has shown no pity, he must pay for the lamb four times over.”

2 Chronicles 28:9

But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.

2 Chronicles 28:10

And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?

Psalms 50:16

To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?

Psalms 50:17

For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.

Psalms 50:18

When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.

Psalms 50:19

You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.

Psalms 50:20

You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.

Psalms 50:21

You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.

John 8:7

When they continued to question Him, He straightened up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her.”

John 8:8

And again He bent down and wrote on the ground.

John 8:9

When they heard this, they began to go away one by one, beginning with the older ones, until only Jesus was left, with the woman standing there.

Galatians 6:1

Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him with a spirit of gentleness. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.