Judging others

Do not judge and criticize and condemn others,
so that you may not be judged
and criticized and condemned yourselves.

For just as you judge and criticize and condemn others,
you will be judged and criticized and condemned,
and in accordance with the measure you [use to]
deal out to others, it will be dealt out again to you.

Why do you stare from without at the very small particle
that is in your brother’s eye
but do not become aware of and consider the beam
of timber that is in your own eye?

Or how can you say to your brother,
Let me get the tiny particle out of your eye,
when there is the beam of timber in your own eye?

You hypocrite,
first get the beam of timber out of your own eye,
and then you will see clearly
to take the tiny particle out of your brother’s eye.

Do not give that which is holy (the sacred thing) to the dogs,
and do not throw your pearls before hogs,
lest they trample upon them with their feet
and turn and tear you in pieces.