Matthew 7:1

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Matthew 7:1

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

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Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at His word:
“Your brothers who hate you, who exclude you for My name’s sake,
Have said, ‘Let the Lord be glorified, that we may see your joy.’
But they will be put to shame.

Also bear your disgrace in that you have made judgment favorable for your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. Yes, be also ashamed and bear your disgrace, in that you made your sisters appear righteous.

“Do not judge, and you will not be judged; and do not condemn, and you will not be condemned;

pardon, and you will be pardoned.

Therefore you have no excuse,

everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats, for God has accepted him.

But to me it is a very small thing that I may be examined by you, or by any human court; in fact, I do not even examine myself.

Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment.

Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it.