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# Why do you look ... brother's eye, but you do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
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Jesus uses this question to challenge the people to pay attention to their own sins before they pay attention to another person's sins. Alternate translation: "Do not look ... brothers eye while you ignore the log that is in your own eye." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
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# the tiny piece of straw that is in your brother's eye
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This is a metaphor that refers to the less important faults of a fellow believer. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# tiny piece of straw
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"speck" or "splinter" or "bit of dust." Use a word for the smallest thing that commonly falls into a person's eyes.
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# brother
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Here "brother" refers to a fellow Jew or a fellow believer in Jesus.
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# do not notice the log that is in your own eye
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"do not notice that you have a log in your own eye"
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# the log that is in your own eye
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This is a metaphor for a person's most important faults. A log could not literally go into a person's eye. Jesus exaggerates to emphasize that a person should pay attention to his own more important faults before he deals with another person's less important faults. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-hyperbole]])
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# log
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"beam" or "plank"
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