19 Bible Verses about Not Judging
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“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.
Do not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you yourselves may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing right at the door.
Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this—not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother’s way.
There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor?
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.
Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men’s hearts; and then each man’s praise will come to him from God.
For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.
but if there are questions about words and names and your own law, look after it yourselves; I am unwilling to be a judge of these matters.”
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.
Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day—
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.
Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.
If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son,