Matthew 7:4 meaning and explanation

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?

Matthew 7:4, Berean Standard Bible

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Jesus is speaking to His disciples in the Sermon on the Mount, continuing the thought from verse 3. The picture is deliberately exaggerated: a tiny splinter of wood or straw in another person's eye, compared with a wooden beam used in construction lodged in one's own.

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