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“If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
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There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them at the last day.
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Pilate said, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.” “But we have no right to execute anyone,” they objected.
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When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha).
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But Peter and John replied, “Which is right in God’s eyes: to listen to you, or to him? You be the judges!
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“But the man who was mistreating the other pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us?
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“This is the same Moses they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ He was sent to be their ruler and deliverer by God himself, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
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He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead.
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All this took about 450 years. “After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.
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For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”
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But since it involves questions about words and names and your own law—settle the matter yourselves. I will not be a judge of such things.”
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Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! You sit there to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law by commanding that I be struck!”
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When the governor motioned for him to speak, Paul replied: “I know that for a number of years you have been a judge over this nation; so I gladly make my defense.
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God’s Righteous Judgment
You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.
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All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
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This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.
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Not at all! Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written: “So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge.”
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Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?
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The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.
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Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.
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You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.
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I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself.
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My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me.
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Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God.
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What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
