The Book of Mormon

3 Nephi 14:4

1830 Edition

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?

Influences

Matthew 7:4 (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?

Changes

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?

Simple English

How can you say to your brother, “Let me take the dirt out of your eye”? You have a big stick in your own eye.

Paraphrase

“How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me get that speck out of your eye,’ when you’ve got a log stuck in yours?”