What does the Bible say about judging others?
Quite a touchy subject isn’t it? People are always telling us “Don’t judge me!” Or “Only God can judge me!” What I’ve noticed is the people making these statements are usually the ones that are living sinful lifestyles. Notice I didn’t say those that sin on occasion, for we all do, but those that practice sin. Let’s see what the bible has to say about it. The word judge in the Greek is the word KrinÅ which means to divide, separate, make a distinction, come to decision, to give one’s opinion. WHEN WE SHOULD NOT JUDGE Jesus in Matthew 7:1-5 commands us not to judge if we’re in the following situation, “ Judge not that ye be not judged. For with the same judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged and with that measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why behold the mote in your brother’s eye and consider not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, let me