28 Bible Verses about Judging Others

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Deuteronomy 16:18-20

Judges and scribes shall thou give to thee in all thy gates which Jehovah thy God gave to thee according to thy tribes: and they judged the people just judgment Thou shalt not turn away Judgment; thou shalt not look upon and thou shalt not take a gift, for the gift will blind the eyes of the wise and will pervert the words of the just. Justice, justice shalt thou follow, so that thou live and inherit the land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee.

Exodus 23:6-7

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy needy in his cause. From the word of falsehood thou shalt go far away; and the innocent and the just one thou shalt not kill: for I will not justify the unjust one.

Leviticus 19:15

Ye shall not do evil in judgment; thou shalt not take up the face of the poor; thou shalt not reverence the face of the great: in justice shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

Deuteronomy 1:16-17

And I shall command your judges in that time, saying, Hear between your brethren, and judge justice between a man and between his brother and between his stranger. Ye shall not look upon faces in judgment; as the small so the great shall ye hear; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is to God; and the word which shall be hard for you, ye shall bring to me and I heard it

Proverbs 24:23

Also these to the wise. To look upon the face in judgment is not good.

Ezekiel 18:5-8

And if a man shall be just and do judgment and justice, Not to eat upon the mountains, and not to lift up his eyes to the blocks of the house of Israel, and not to defile his neighbor's wife, and he shall not come near to a woman of uncleanness. And he shall not oppress a man; he shall turn back his pledge to the debtor; he will not strip off plunder, his bread he will give to him hungry, and the naked he will cover with a garment;read more.
And he shall not give upon interest, and he shall not take interest, from iniquity he shall turn back his hand; he shall do judgment of truth between man to man.

1 Kings 3:28

And all Israel will hear the judgment which the king judged, and they will be afraid of the face of the king, for they saw that the wisdom of Jehovah was in the midst of him to do judgment

Exodus 18:13-16

And it will be on the morrow, and Moses will sit to judge the people: and they will stand by Moses from the morning to the evening. And Moses' father-in-law will see all which he did for the people, and he will say, What this thou doest to the people? Wherefore wilt thou sit alone by thyself, and all the people stand by thee from morning to evening? And Moses will say to his father-in-law, Because the people will come to me to seek God.read more.
For when the word will be to them, they came to me, and I judged between a man and between his friend, and I made known the laws Of God and his precepts.

1 Samuel 7:15

And Samuel will judge Israel all the days of his life.

1 Samuel 12:1-4

And Samuel will say to all Israel, Behold, I heard to your voice, to all that ye said to me, and I will make a king over you. And now, behold, the king going before you: and I grew old and I was gray-headed; and my sons, behold them with you: and I went before you from my youth even to this day. Behold me: answer against me before Jehovah and before his Messiah, whose ox did I take? or whose ass did I take? and whom did I oppress? whom did I vex? and from whose hand did I take a ransom and hidden mine eyes with it? and I will turn back to you.read more.
And they will say, Thou didst not oppress us, and thou didst not vex us, and thou didst not take any thing from man's hand.

John 8:3-11

And the scribes and Pharisees brought him a woman taken in adultery; and having set her in the midst, They say to him, Teacher, this woman was taken committing adultery, in the very act. In the law Moses commanded us such to be stoned: therefore what sayest thou?read more.
And this said they, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. And Jesus, having stooped down, wrote with his fingers upon the earth. And when they continued asking him, having lifted up the head, he said to them, Let him faultless among you, first cast a stone at her. And again having stooped down, he wrote upon the earth. And they having heard, and being convicted by consciousness, went out one by one, beginning from the eldest even to the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. And Jesus having lifted up the head, and seen none but the woman, said to her, Woman, where are they accusing thee? has none condemned thee And she said, None, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

Luke 12:13-14

And a certain one out of the crowd said to him, Teacher, speak to my brother to divide the inheritance with me. And he said to him, Man, who appointed me judge or distributer over you

John 8:15-16

Ye judge according to the flesh; I judge no one. And if I also judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father having sent me.

Matthew 7:1-5

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye measure, it shall be repaid to you. And why seest thou the mote which is in thy brother's eye, and the beam in thine eye thou observest not?read more.
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let go I will cast out the mote from thine eye: and behold a beam in thine eye. Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam from thine eye, and thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote from thy brother's eye.

Luke 6:37-42

And judge not, and ye should not be judged: condemn not, and ye should not be condemned: loose ye, and ye shall be loosed. Give, and it shall be given you; good measure, yielded, and shaken, and overflowed, shall they give into your bosom: for with the same measure that ye measure, shall it be measured back to you. And he spake to them a parable, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?read more.
For the learner is not above his teacher: and every one set in order shall be as his teacher. And why beholdest thou the dried straw in thy brother's eye, and perceivest not the beam in thine own eye? Or how Canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, suffer that I cast out the mote in thine eye, thyself not beholding the beam in thine eye? O hypocrite, cast out first the beam from thine own eye, and then shalt thou see through to cast out the mote in thy brother's eye.

Romans 2:1-3

Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, every one judging: for in what thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou judging doest the same. And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon them doing such things. And thinkest thou this, O man, judging them doing such things, and doing the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

Romans 14:1-13

Him being weak in faith receive ye, not to judgments of conversations. One truly believes to eat all things: and he being weak eats vegetables. Let not him eating despise him not eating: and let not him not eating judge him eating: for God has received him.read more.
Who art thou judging another's servant? to his own lord he stands or falls. And he shall be made to stand: for God is powerful to make him stand. For one truly judges day above day: and one judges every day. Let each one be perfectly certain in his own mind. He minding the day, minds to the Lord; and he not minding the day, to the Lord he minds not. He eating, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he not eating, to the Lord he eats not, and he gives thanks to God. For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. For whether we live, to the Lord we live: and whether we die, to the Lord we die: therefore whether we live, and whether we die, we are of the Lord. For, for this Christ also died, and also arose, and returned again to life, that he might also reign over the dead and the living. And why judgest thou thy brother? or why also despisest thou thy brother? for we shall all stand at the judgment seat of Christ. For it has been written, I live, says the Lord, for to me shall every knee bend, and every tongue acknowledge to God. So therefore shall each of us give word for himself to God. Then let us no more judge one another: but rather judge ye this, not to put a stumble or offence to thy brother.

James 2:1-4

My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, of glory, with distinction of faces. For if there come into your synagogue a man wearing gold rings on is fingers, in brilliant clothing, and there come in also a beggar in filthy clothing; And ye look toward him bearing the brilliant clothing, and ye say to him, Sit thou well here; and to the beggar ye say, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:read more.
Were ye not separated among yourselves, and become judges of evil reflections?

James 4:11-12

Speak not against one another, brethren. He speaking against a brother, and judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law: and if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is one legislator, able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another

1 Corinthians 5:12-13

For what to me also to judge them without? do ye yourselves judge them within And them without God judges. And take ye away evil from yourselves.

1 Corinthians 5:1-5

In general is fornication heard among you, and such fornication which is not named in the nations, for any to have his father's wife. And ye were puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he having done this work might be taken away from the midst of you. For I truly, as being at a distance in body, and being present in spirit, have already, as being present, judged him having so worked this.read more.
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ye, gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such a one to Satan for the ruin of the flesh, that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

1 Corinthians 6:1-6

Dare any of you, having an affair with another, be judged by the unjust, and not by the holy ones? Know ye not that the holy ones shall judge the world? and if the world be judged by you, are ye unworthy of the least judgments? Know ye not that we shall judge messengers? also not only things pertaining to the cares of life?read more.
Therefore truly, if ye have judgments pertaining to the cares of life, set them counted as nothing in the church. For confusion I speak to you. So is there not one wise with you, who will be able to judge between his brother? But brother with brother is judged, and this by the unbelieving.

Matthew 7:15-20

And hold from false prophets which come in to you in sheep's dresses, but within they are rapacious wolves. By their fruits shall ye know them. Far from it, do they gather grapes from thorns, or figs from caltrops So every good tree makes good fruits; but the rotten tree makes evil fruits.read more.
A good tree cannot make evil fruits, nor a rotten tree make good fruits. Every tree not making good fruit is cut off, and cast into fire. Wherefore from their fruits shall ye know them.

2 Corinthians 11:10-15

The truth of Christ is in me, for this boasting shall not be shut up in me in the regions of Achaia. Wherefore? because I love you not? God knows. And what I do, and I will do, that I shall not cut off the occasion of those wishing the occasion; that in what they boast, they be found as also we.read more.
For such the falsely sent, crafty workers, being transformed into the sent of Christ. And not wonderful; for Satan himself is transformed into a messenger of light. No great thing therefore if also his servants are transformed as servants of justice; whose end shall be according to their works.

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