Matthew 7:2

If you condemn other people, God will condemn you. To the same extent that you condemn others, you will be condemned { God will condemn you}.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

In Context

1“Do not talk about how sinfully others have acted, in order that God will not say how sinfully you have acted.

3◄None of you should be concerned about someone else’s small faults [MET]!/Why should any of you be concerned about someone else’s small faults?► [MET, RHQ] That would be like noticing a speck in that person’s eye. But you should be concerned about your own big faults. They are like [MET] planks in your own eye, which you do not notice.

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Cross References

Exodus 21:24If her eye is injured or destroyed, or if he knocks out one of her teeth, or her hand or foot is injured, or if she is burned or bruised, the one who injured her must be injured in the same way.

Judges 5:27He collapsed and fell dead at her feet.

Psalms 18:25Yahweh, you are faithful to those who faithfully do what you tell them to do; you always do what is good/right to those who do what you want them to do.

Jeremiah 51:24But, Yahweh also says, “ Soon I will repay/punish you people in Babylon and in the rest of Babylonia for all the evil things that you have done in Jerusalem.

Mark 4:24Then he said to them, “Consider carefully what you hear me say to you, for God will let you understand to the same degree that you consider what I say. He will let you understand even more than that.

2 Corinthians 9:6Do not forget this: “ A farmer who sows only a few seeds will not gather/reap a large harvest, but the one who sows a lot of seeds will gather/reap a large harvest [MET].” Similarly, if you give just a little to help others, God will give you only a few blessings. But if you give willingly and cheerfully to help people, you will receive in return many blessings from God.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 7:2-7

The Sermon on the Mount. 1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly… Read the whole commentary →

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