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14 Bible Verses About Judging Others

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  • Matthew 7:1-5 pairs “Judge not” with an order: take the log out of your own eye first, then take the speck out of your brother’s.
  • Romans 14 forbids believers to pass judgment on one another over food and holy days, because each will give an account of himself to God.
  • 1 Corinthians 4:5 forbids judgment “before the time,” when the Lord will disclose the purposes of the heart.
  • James 2 calls a congregation that favours the rich “judges with evil thoughts” and ends, “Mercy triumphs over judgment.”
  • The New Testament also tells believers to judge the church’s own members (1 Corinthians 5:12-13), restore one caught in sin (Galatians 6:1) and test the spirits (1 John 4:1).

The Bible tells believers not to judge one another, and it also tells them to judge rightly. Jesus says both: “Judge not” in Matthew 7:1 and “judge with right judgment” in John 7:24. In Matthew the command comes with an order to take the log out of your own eye first (Matthew 7:3-5). Paul and James give God’s place as judge as the reason for their warnings (Romans 14:4; James 4:12), and Paul still tells the church to judge those…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

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