The Mote and the Beam (also called discourse on judgmentalism) is a proverbial saying of Jesus given in the Sermon on the Mount. in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 7, verses 1 thru 5. The discourse is fairly brief, and begins by telling his disciples not to judge others, arguing that they too would be judged by the same standard. The Sermon on the Plain has a similar passage in Luke 6:37–42.
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