<P> The New Testament text is as follows: </P> <P> 1 Judge not, that ye be not judged . 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again . 3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5 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 . </P> <P> The first two verses use plural "ye" and "you", and the next three verses use the singular "thou", "thy" and "thine" to the individual . (Luke 6: 41 was translated "thou" after using "ye" in Luke 6: 37 .) </P> <P> The moral lesson is to avoid hypocrisy, self - righteousness, and censoriousness . The analogy used is of a small object in another's eye as compared with a large beam of wood in one's own . The original Greek word translated as "mote" (κάρφος karphos) meant "any small dry body". The terms mote and beam are from the King James Version; other translations use different words, e.g. the New International Version uses "speck (of sawdust)" and "plank". In Twenty - first century English a "mote" is more normally a particle of dust--particularly one that is floating in the air--rather than a tiny splinter of wood . The analogy is suggestive of a carpenter's workshop, with which Jesus would have been familiar . </P>

Where does the bible say judge not lest ye be judged