42 How are you able to say to your brother, “Brother, allow me to remove the speck that is in your eye,” while[a] you yourself do not see the beam of wood in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the beam of wood from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother’s eye!

The Sermon on the Plain: Trees and Their Fruit

43 “For there is no good tree that produces bad fruit, nor on the other hand a bad tree that produces good fruit, 44 for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorn plants, nor are grapes harvested from thorn bushes.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 6:42 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“see”) which is understood as temporal