"Your course toward your stepfather was unbecoming. He did not deserve to be treated by you as he was. He had faults and had committed errors, but while you were awake to see these in an aggravated light you did not see your own errors. In the providence of God your wife was prostrated by disease. She was a proud-spirited woman; but she repented of her sins, and her repentance was accepted of God. 2T 422.2"
"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"
The EGW passage illustrates the principle of Matthew 7:3, focusing on the individual's tendency to see faults in others while ignoring their own.