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The Gospel of Matthew. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, Hill sees this statement as in the same spirit as the famous "He who is without sin" teaching of John This verse makes clear that it is the height of hypocrisy to point out a minor flaw sin in another when your sins are much worse. The World English Bible translates the passage as: You hypocrite!
Seeing that humans are always fallible, your own salvation and righteousness should be your focus, not finding fault with others. Remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
Such aid should only be given, however, once one's own much larger problems are dealt with. Occurs worldwide. But today, if we would shift our focus from the specks we see in others to the planks in our own eyes, what a difference it would make for us all!
Jesus always made clear that judging was to be done by the Father, and ftom should concern themselves with making their own soul ready for acceptance into the kingdom of God. We've all enrolled in the course while suffering from the disease.
Wilhelm C. The focus should always be in one's own faults, not their neighbor's. For a collection of other versions see BibleHub Matthew Analysis[ edit yiur This verse continues the metaphor of a person with a plank in their own eye who criticizes someone for a speck in that person's eye.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text re: 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. It drom take a carpenter or an ophthalmologist to understand this metaphor of Jesus.
If speckology were listed in a university catalog, the course description might read: "The identifying and criticizing of small shortcomings in the lives of everyone around you. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, In this verse, Jesus argues that one must first remove the plank before going on to remove the speck.
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