Matthew 7:4
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?
Matthew 7:4 in other translations
| BSB | 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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| WEB | Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ and behold, the beam is in your own eye? |
| ASV | 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? |
| YLT | or, how wilt thou say to thy brother, Suffer I may cast out the mote from thine eye, and lo, the beam is in thine own eye? |
| DARBY | Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Allow me, I will cast out the mote from thine eye; and behold, the beam is in thine eye? |
| BBE | 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? |
| Webster | Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thy eye; and behold, a beam is in thy own eye? |
What does Matthew 7:4 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Matthew 7:1-6
We must judge ourselves, and judge of our own acts, but not make our word a law to everybody. We must not judge rashly, nor pass judgment upon our brother without any ground. We must not make the worst of people. Here is a just reproof to those who quarrel with their brethren for small faults, while they allow themselves in greater ones. Some sins are as motes, while others are as beams; some as a gnat, others as a…
Matthew 7:4 in the original Greek
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Context
- Matthew 7:3
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
- Matthew 7:4
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?
- Matthew 7:5
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.
Matthew 7:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | O ¿cómo dirás á tu hermano: Espera, echaré de tu ojo la mota, y he aquí la viga en tu ojo? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ou comment dis-tu à ton frère: Permets, j’ôterai le fétu de ton œil; et voici, la poutre est dans ton œil? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Oder wie wirst du zu deinem Bruder sagen: Erlaube, ich will den Splitter aus deinem Auge ziehen; und siehe, der Balken ist in deinem Auge? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | aut quomodo dicis fratri tuo: Sine ejiciam festucam de oculo tuo, et ecce trabs est in oculo tuo? |