Luke 6:41

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Summary

Luke 6:41

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Why

Matthew 7:3

Romans 2:1

But

Bible References

Why

Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?

Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge someone else. For on whatever grounds you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.

But

Then David became very angry at this man. He said to Nathan, "As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die!

Joab said to Amasa, "How are you, my brother?" With his right hand Joab took hold of Amasa's beard as if to greet him with a kiss.

May the Lord punish him for the blood he shed; behind my father David's back he struck down and murdered with the sword two men who were more innocent and morally upright than he -- Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel's army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah's army.

Now Joab did not number Levi and Benjamin, for the king's edict disgusted him.

for he is too proud to recognize and give up his sin.

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?

Because he considered and turned from all the sins he had done, he will surely live; he will not die.

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, "Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her."

For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.