Matthew 7:1
“Do not judge, or you will be judged.
2 For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3 Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Do not judge, or you will be judged.
- KJV
- Judge not, that ye be not judged.
- WEB
- “Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.
- ASV
- Judge not, that ye be not judged.
- DARBY
- Judge not, that ye may not be judged;
- BLB
- [“] Do not judge, that you⁺ may not be judged.
- ÅB
- «Døm ikke, så ikke dere selv skal bli dømt! For med samme dom som dere dømmer skal dere selv dømmes;
- OTB
- “Døm ikke, for at dere ikke skal bli dømt.
- B1930
- Døm ikke, forat I ikke skal dømmes! for med den samme dom som I dømmer med, skal I dømmes,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Luke 6:37
Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
Read in contextRomans 2:1–2
You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on another. For on whatever grounds you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.
Read in contextJames 4:11–12
Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.
Read in contextLuke 6:41
Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
Read in contextRomans 14:10–13
Why, then, do you judge your brother? Or why do you belittle your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.
Read in contextMatthew 7:5
You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Read in context1 Corinthians 4:3–5
I care very little, however, if I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.
Read in contextRomans 14:3–4
The one who eats everything must not belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted him.
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