Come to good terms with your accuser quickly, while you are with him on the way to court, so that your accuser will not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you will not be thrown into prison.

Judging Others

“Do not judge, so that you will not be judged.

For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.

And if by Beelzebul I cast out the demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore, they will be your judges.

“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.

Simon answered and said, “I assume the one for whom he canceled the greater debt.” And He said to him, “You have judged correctly.”

Yet if by Beelzebul I cast out the demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore, they will be your judges.

But He said to him, “You there—who appointed Me a judge or arbitrator over the two of you?”

“And why do you not even judge by yourselves what is right?

For when you are going with your accuser to appear before the magistrate, on the way, make an effort to settle with him, so that he does not drag you before the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

saying, “In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and did not respect any person.

And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge *said;

He *said to him, ‘From your own lips I will judge you, you worthless slave. Did you know that I am a demanding man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow?

For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him.

The one who believes in Him is not judged; the one who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son,

“I can do nothing on My own. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of Him who sent Me.

Do not judge by the outward appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”

“Our Law does not judge the person unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”

You judge according to the flesh; I am not judging anyone.

But even if I do judge, My judgment is true; for I am not alone in it, but I and the Father who sent Me.

I have many things to say and to judge regarding you, but He who sent Me is true; and the things which I heard from Him, these I say to the world.”

But I am not seeking My glory; there is One who seeks it, and judges.

If anyone hears My teachings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

The one who rejects Me and does not accept My teachings has one who judges him: the word which I spoke. That will judge him on the last day.