If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the fire of hell.

"You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.'

"The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

And why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and look, the log is in your own eye?

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