Verse of the Day

　　

Matthew 7:1

"Do not judge, or you too will be judged."

　　

Translations of Today's Verse

King James Version

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

English Standard Version

"Judge not, that you be not judged.

The Message

"Don't pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults - unless, of course, you want the same treatment.

New King James Version

"Judge not, that you be not judged."

New Living Translation

"Stop judging others, and you will not be judged."

　　

Commentary on Today's Verse

Commentary on Matthew 7:1-6

(Read Matthew 7:1-6)

　　We must judge ourselves, and judge of our own acts, but not make our word a law to everybody. We must not judge rashly, nor pass judgment upon our brother without any ground. We must not make the worst of people. Here is a just reproof to those who quarrel with their brethren for small faults, while they allow themselves in greater ones. Some sins are as motes, while others are as beams; some as a gnat, others as a camel. Not that there is any sin little; if it be a mote, or splinter, it is in the eye; if a gnat, it is in the throat; both are painful and dangerous, and we cannot be easy or well till they are got out. That which charity teaches us to call but a splinter in our brother's eye, true repentance and godly sorrow will teach us to call a beam in our own. It is as strange that a man can be in a sinful, miserable condition, and not be aware of it, as that a man should have a beam in his eye, and not consider it; but the god of this world blinds their minds. Here is a good rule for reprovers; first reform thyself.

　　

Matthew 7:1 In-Context

1 "Do not judge, or you too will be judged.

　　2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

　　3 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

　　4 How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?

　　5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.