A chiasm is a literary structure where the words of the first section of a passage are repeated in reverse order in the second. The center of the chiasm is typically the climax of the passage. In Matthew 7:3-5, the center is the obvious questing, “how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye? (Matt 7:4).