Matthew 7:1-5:
7:1You must not judge in order that you may not be judged, .2for in which judgment you judge you will be judged and in which measure you measure it will be measured to you. .3But why do you observe the speck, the (speck) in your brother's eye, but the beam in your eye you do not mentally-perceive? .4Or how will you say to your brother, 'You must leave (me so) I may throw-out the speck from your eye,' and look!, the beam in your eye? .5Hypocrite, you must firstly throw-out the beam from your eye and then you will throughly-observe to throw-out the speck from your brother's eye.
Jesus continues teaching those listening to him who were eligible to belong to the kingdom of God at a future time, which he has been talking about.
You must not judge (make a decision passing sentence in final judgment whether good or bad regarding yourself, another or a particular situation) for the purpose and result that you would not be judged (by another making a decision in response to the one you make). In truth, the judgment (decision made or arrived-at issuing from the judging process, the sentence passed or pronounced) in which you judge you will be judged (by another), and the measure (the standard, that by which anything is measured, the limits of the content, the measurement that is set by the content) in which you measure it will be measured to you (by another).
But why do you observe the speck (why are you, singular/individual, mentally-aware of and contemplate the small particle of dry wood, timber, a splinter or dust, even though nothing may be physically seen with your physical eyes), i.e., the speck in your brother's eye, but the beam (large piece of wood, timber) in the eye which emphatically belongs to you, you do not mentally-perceive (you don't fully take-note or attentively-notice it in your mind even though you have physically seen it)?
Jesus is using an illustration here figuratively to help those listening to understand: a person would not usually have a physical beam of wood in his eye, but the beam represents a large or major fault or action against God that the person knows he has committed. The speck would be a minor/small fault or action against God. The person with the beam can see and wants to deal with what is in the other person's eye but refuses to acknowledge and rectify what he himself has done against God. Also, the 'brother' in this context is referring to an Israeli or Judean man who should also believe and obey what God says.
Jesus continues: or, how will you say (mindfully tell) to your brother, 'you must leave me (in the sense of let it go from your concern as to what I do, dismiss me and thereby permit me to do what I want to do at this moment, which is) so I would throw or cast out the speck from your eye' – and look! (behold!, see!), the beam in your eye? Hypocrite…. A hypocrite is one who answers in reply in pretense as if wearing a mask playing a part on a stage, feigning to be what he is not, to be what others think he is or wants him to be, who judges from underneath the truth and so deliberately misrepresent himself and the truth of God's Word. Hypocrite, you must firstly throw/cast out the beam from your eye and then, afterwards, you will throughly-observe (observe through and through, thoroughly be mentally-aware of and contemplate, even though nothing may be physically seen with your physical eyes) for the purpose of being able to throw/cast out the speck from your brother's eye.
[Reference: Luke 6:37, 38, 41, and 42; James 4:11.]
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