He said to him, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! You knew, did you, that I was a harsh man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?

Witnesses to Jesus

“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just because I seek to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”

“Our law does not judge people without first giving them a hearing to find out what they are doing, does it?”

Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is valid, for it is not I alone who judge but I and the Father who sent me.

Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge.

I do not judge anyone who hears my words and does not keep them, for I came not to judge the world but to save the world.

The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; on the last day the word that I have spoken will serve as judge,

Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and judge him according to your law.” The Jews replied, “We are not permitted to put anyone to death.”

but since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; I do not wish to be a judge of these matters.”

Do Not Judge Another

Welcome those who are weak in faith but not for the purpose of quarreling over opinions.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. I do not even judge myself.

I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.

Sexual Immorality Must Be Judged

I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral persons,

For what have I to do with judging those outside? Are you not judges of those who are inside?

Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?

Do you not know that we are to judge angels, to say nothing of ordinary matters?

But if we judged ourselves, we would not be judged.

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

From now on there is reserved for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have longed for his appearing.

have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

Warning against Judging Another

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers and sisters. Whoever speaks evil against another or judges another speaks evil against the law and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

Brothers and sisters, do not grumble against one another, so that you may not be judged. See, the Judge is standing at the doors!

When he was abused, he did not return abuse; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but he entrusted himself to the one who judges justly.

Then I saw thrones, and those seated on them were given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its brand on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.