19 Bible Verses about criticism

What we are specially guarding against is that any fault should be found with us in regard to our administration of this charitable fund;

Do not disparage one another, Brothers. He who disparages his Brother, or passes judgment on his Brother, disparages the Law and passes judgment on the Law. But, if you pass judgment on the Law, you are not obeying it, but judging it.

Yet Jesus made no reply--not even a single word; at which the Governor was greatly astonished.

The man who eats meat must not despise the man who abstains from it; nor must the man who abstains from eating meat pass judgment on the one who eats it, for God himself has received him.

let the instruction that you give be sound and above reproach, so that the enemy may be ashamed when he fails to find anything bad to say about us.

The defense that I make to my critics is this:

So as to prove yourselves blameless and innocent-- 'faultless children of God, in the midst of an evil-disposed and perverse generation,' in which you are seen shining like stars in a dark world,

Who are you, that you should pass judgment on the servant of another? His standing or falling concerns his own master. And stand he will, for his Master can enable him to stand.

For they valued honor from men more than honor from God.

For we are trying to make arrangements which shall be right, not only in the eyes of the Lord, but also in the eyes of men.

As for those whose faith is weak, always receive them as friends, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on their scruples.

But, if you are continually wounding and preying upon one another, take care that you are not destroyed by one another.

Hypocrite! Take out the beam from your own eye first, and then you will see clearly how to take out the straw from your brother's.

Blessed are you when people taunt you, and persecute you, and say everything evil about you--untruly, and on my account.

But Jesus, aware that his disciples were murmuring about it, said to them:

His brothers said to him: "Leave this part of the country, and go into Judea, so that your disciples, as well as we, may see the work that you are doing.

I would ask the one man 'Why do you judge your Brother?' And I would ask the other 'Why do you despise your Brother?' For we shall all stand before the Bar of God.