⁵ Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought^(A) to your ways.

³ “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? ⁴ How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? ⁵ You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

³ If anyone thinks they are something^(A) when they are not, they deceive themselves.^{(B) 4} Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone,^(C) without comparing themselves to someone else,^(D)