19 Bible Verses about Not Judging
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"Stop judging, and you'll never be judged. Stop condemning, and you'll never be condemned. Forgive, and you'll be forgiven.
Do not complain about each other, brothers, or you will be condemned. Look! The Judge is standing at the door!
Therefore, let's no longer criticize each other. Instead, make up your mind not to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
There is only one Lawgiver and Judge the one who can save and destroy. So who are you to judge your neighbor?
Do not criticize each other, brothers. Whoever makes it his habit to criticize his brother or to judge his brother is judging the Law and condemning the Law. But if you condemn the Law, you are not a practicer of the Law but its judge.
Therefore, stop judging prematurely, before the Lord comes, for he will bring to light what is now hidden in darkness and reveal the motives of our hearts. Then each person will receive his praise from God.
For the one who has shown no mercy will be judged without mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
But since it is a question about words, names, and your own Law, you will have to take care of that yourselves. I refuse to be a judge in these matters."
It is a very small thing to me that I should be examined by you or by any human court. In fact, I don't even evaluate myself.
Therefore, let no one judge you in matters of food and drink or with respect to a festival, a New Moon, or Sabbath days.
The person who eats any kind of food must not ridicule the person who does not eat them, and the person who does not eat certain foods must not criticize the person who eats them, for God has accepted him.
Who are you to criticize someone else's servant? He stands or falls before his own Lord and stand he will, because the Lord makes him stand.
Why, then, do you criticize your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For all of us will stand before the judgment seat of God.
If anyone hears my words and doesn't keep them, I don't condemn him, because I didn't come to condemn the world, but to save it.
Because God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world would be saved through him.