judging one another
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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.
24Do not judge according to appearances, but instead judge a just judgment.”
1“Do not judge, so that you may not be judged.
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.
37Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
4Who are you to judge the servant of another? He stands or falls by his own Lord. But he shall stand. For God is able to make him stand.
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?
17But I beg you, brothers, to take note of those who cause dissensions and offenses contrary to the doctrine that you have learned, and to turn away from them. 18For ones such as these do not serve Christ our Lord, but their inner selves, and, through pleasing words and skillful speaking, they seduce the hearts of the innocent.
15But the spiritual nature of man judges all things, and he himself may be judged by no man.
7And then, when they persevered in questioning him, he stood upright and said to them, “Let whoever is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her.”