judging
What does the Bible say about judging? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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24Do not judge according to appearances, but instead judge a just judgment.”
37Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
1“Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. 2For with whatever judgment you judge, so shall you be judged; and with whatever measure you measure out, so shall it be measured back to you. 3And how can you see the splinter in your brother’s eye, and not see the board in your own eye? 4Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the splinter from your eye,’ while, behold, a board is in your own eye? 5Hypocrite, first remove the board from your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.
11Brothers, do not choose to slander one another. Whoever slanders his brother, or whoever judges his brother, slanders the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12There is one lawgiver and one judge. He is able to destroy, and he is able to set free.
1“Do not judge, so that you may not be judged.
3But, O man, when you judge those who do such things as you yourself also do, do you think that you will escape the judgment of God?
12For what have I to do with judging those who are outside? But do not even you yourselves judge those who are inside?
5Hypocrite, first remove the board from your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.
1For this reason, O man, each one of you who judges is inexcusable. For by that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you do the same things that you judge. 2For we know that the judgment of God is in accord with truth against those who do such things. 3But, O man, when you judge those who do such things as you yourself also do, do you think that you will escape the judgment of God?
12There is one lawgiver and one judge. He is able to destroy, and he is able to set free.
15But the spiritual nature of man judges all things, and he himself may be judged by no man.