Bible Verse Wood In Eye

In the king james version of the bible the text reads.

Bible verse wood in eye.

3 why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye. 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. Drawing by ottmar elliger the younger 1666 1735. Thou hypocrite first cast out the beam out of thine own eye.

And then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother s eye. First take the beam of wood out of your eye and then you will see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother s eye. The order of the greek lays still more emphasis on the fact that though in thy very own eye there is a beam thou payest no regard to that cf. The moral lesson is to avoid hypocrisy self righteousness and censoriousness.

So huge a piece of wood is there in thine own eye. The world english bible translates the passage as. And then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother s eye. The parable of the mote and the beam.

Thou hypocrite first cast out the beam out of thine own eye. Read full chapter matthew 7 3 in all english translations. And then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother s eye. Christian standard bible hypocrite.

Darby bible thou hypocrite first cast out the beam out of thy own eye. King james version kjv. That is in thine own eye.