But we must take care what we think and say about others, for each of us will be held to the standard we impose upon others. This language implies that people will be judging others. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.” Read both verses: “Judge not, that you be not judged. Yet there is more to Christ’s words in Matthew 7:1 than first meets the eye. This certainly seems to confirm that believers should not allow themselves to form or to voice opinions about others. The Greek word for “judge” is krino and can also be translated as “to pronounce an opinion concerning right and wrong,” “condemn,” “to be of opinion,” “deem,” “think” ( The King James Version New Testament Greek Lexicon). The message is that we should first work on our own shortcomings-a perspective borne out in 2 Corinthians 13:5, where believers are urged strongly, “Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith”! What does judge mean? This bears out that one should not go around trying to straighten out the faults of others. Jesus said, “And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’ and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” In verses 3-5 Jesus gave a powerful analogy about a person with a huge beam of wood in his eye hypocritically trying to remove a tiny speck from someone else’s eye. One of the basic rules of good biblical scholarship is to consider a verse in its context. “Judge not lest ye be judged” is a famous quote from the Sermon on the Mount in the venerable King James Version.īut what did Jesus mean when He said, “Judge not”? Remove the log from your eye
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