39 Jesus also gave them this illustration: “Can one blind person lead another? Won’t both fall into the same pit?
40 A student is no better than his teacher. But everyone who is well-trained will be like his teacher.
41 “Why do you see the piece of sawdust in another believer’s eye and not notice the wooden beam in your own eye?
42 How can you say to another believer, ‘Friend, let me take the piece of sawdust out of your eye,’ when you don’t see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye. Then you will see clearly to remove the piece of sawdust from another believer’s eye.
43 “A good tree doesn’t produce rotten fruit, and a rotten tree doesn’t produce good fruit.
44 Each tree is known by its fruit. You don’t pick figs from thorny plants or grapes from a thornbush.
45 Good people do the good that is in them. But evil people do the evil that is in them. The things people say come from inside them.