Berean Standard Bible
“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?”
Jesus is warning against a critical, condemning attitude toward others. His language is humorous and deliberately exaggerated, picturing a person with a beam of wood in the eye trying to help someone with a speck of dust.
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Berean Standard Bible (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?
World English Bible (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?
King James Version (KJV)
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?
American Standard Version (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?
Bible in Basic English (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?
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
Or, how will you say to your brother, Permit I may cast out the mote splinter, speck from your eye, and lo, the beam is in your own eye?}
Reina-Valera 1909 (RVR 1909)
O ¿cómo dirás á tu hermano: Espera, echaré de tu ojo la mota, y he aquí la viga en tu ojo?
Sagradas Escrituras 1569 (SE 1569)
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Nueva Biblia Viva (NBV)
¿Cómo le pedirás a tu amigo que te deje sacarle la paja que tiene en su ojo, si la viga que tienes en el tuyo no te deja ver?
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