“Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”
You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. The sequence is explicit: first your own log, then your brother's speck. The prohibition on judgment is not a prohibition on all correction but a demand for the order of correction — self before other. The person who has done the work of self-examination and self-correction is then qualified to help another: you will see clearly. The clarity of vision that makes helpful correction possible is the gift of the prior self-examination. The hypocrite who skips step one cannot perform step two effectively regardless of their diagnostic skill.
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