Matthew 7:1

Amplified Bible

"Do not judge and criticize and condemn [others unfairly with an attitude of self-righteous superiority as though assuming the office of a judge], so that you will not be judged [unfairly].

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Do not judge, so that you won’t be judged.

King James Version (1611)
Iudge not, that ye be not iudged.

King James Version
Judge not, that ye be not judged.

English Standard Version
"Judge not, that you be not judged.

New American Standard Bible
"Do not judge, so that you will not be judged.

New Century Version
"Don't judge others, or you will be judged.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Ivdge not, that ye be not iudged.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Do not judge so that you will not be judged.

Legacy Standard Bible
"Do not judge, so that you will not be judged.

Berean Standard Bible
Do not judge, or you will be judged.

Contemporary English Version
Don't condemn others, and God won't condemn you.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.

Darby Translation
Judge not, that ye may not be judged;

Easy-to-Read Version
"Don't judge others, and God will not judge you.

George Lamsa Translation
JUDGE not, that you may not be judged.

Good News Translation
"Do not judge others, so that God will not judge you,

Lexham English Bible
"Do not judge, so that you will not be judged.

Literal Translation
Do not judge, that you may not be judged;

American Standard Version
Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Bible in Basic English
Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged.

Hebrew Names Version
"Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.

International Standard Version
"Stop judging, so that you won't be judged.Luke 6:37; Romans 2:1; 1 Corinthians 4:3,5; James 4:11-12;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
JUDGE not, that you be not judged.

Murdock Translation
Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iudge not, that ye be not iudged.

English Revised Version
Judge not, that ye be not judged.

World English Bible
"Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge,

Weymouth's New Testament
"Judge not, that you may not be judged;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Nile ye deme, `that ye be not demed; for in what doom ye demen,

Update Bible Version
Do not judge, that you are not judged.

Webster's Bible Translation
Judge not, that ye be not judged.

New English Translation
"Do not judge so that you will not be judged.

New King James Version
Luke 6:37-42">[xr] "Judge not, that you be not judged.

New Living Translation
"Do not judge others, and you will not be judged.

New Life Bible
"Do not say what is wrong in other people's lives. Then other people will not say what is wrong in your life.

New Revised Standard
"Do not judge, so that you may not be judged.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Judge not, that ye be not judged; -

Douay-Rheims Bible
Judge not, that you may not be judged.

Revised Standard Version
"Judge not, that you be not judged.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Iudge not that ye be not iudged.

Young's Literal Translation
`Judge not, that ye may not be judged,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ivdge not, that ye be not iudged:

Mace New Testament (1729)
Judge not, that ye be not judged.

THE MESSAGE
"Don't pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults— unless, of course, you want the same treatment. That critical spirit has a way of boomeranging. It's easy to see a smudge on your neighbor's face and be oblivious to the ugly sneer on your own. Do you have the nerve to say, ‘Let me wash your face for you,' when your own face is distorted by contempt? It's this whole traveling road-show mentality all over again, playing a holier-than-thou part instead of just living your part. Wipe that ugly sneer off your own face, and you might be fit to offer a washcloth to your neighbor.

Simplified Cowboy Version
"Don't make opinions about what others do, and no opinion will be made about you.

Contextual Overview

¹"Do not judge and criticize and condemn [others unfairly with an attitude of self-righteous superiority as though assuming the office of a judge], so that you will not be judged [unfairly].²"For just as you [hypocritically] judge others [when you are sinful and unrepentant], so will you be judged; and in accordance with your standard of measure [used to pass out judgment], judgment will be measured to you. ³"Why do you look at the [insignificant] speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice and acknowledge the [egregious] log that is in your own eye? ⁴"Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me get the speck out of your eye,' when there is a log in your own eye? ⁵"You hypocrite (play-actor, pretender), first get the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. ⁶"Do not give that which is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, for they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 66:5, Ezekiel 16:52-56, Luke 6:37, Romans 2:1, Romans 2:2, Romans 14:3, Romans 14:4, Romans 14:10-13, 1 Corinthians 4:3-5, James 3:1, James 4:11, James 4:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 38:24 - let her Judges 1:7 - as I have 1 Samuel 1:14 - How long Job 19:29 - that ye may Ezekiel 16:59 - I will Ezekiel 31:11 - he shall surely deal with him Matthew 18:35 - do John 8:7 - He that 1 Corinthians 4:5 - judge James 2:4 - judges James 2:13 - he James 5:9 - lest

Cross-References

Genesis 6:9
These are the records of the generations (family history) of Noah. Noah was a righteous man [one who was just and had right standing with God], blameless in his [evil] generation; Noah walked (lived) [in habitual fellowship] with God.

Genesis 7:1
Then the LORD said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you with all your household, for you [alone] I have seen as righteous (doing what is right) before Me in this generation.

Genesis 7:4
"For in seven days I am going to cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy (blot out, wipe away) every living thing that I have made from the surface of the earth."

Genesis 7:5
So Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.

Genesis 7:6
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood (deluge) of water came on the earth [covering all of the land].

Genesis 7:7
Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him entered the ark to escape the flood waters.

Genesis 7:8
Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and fowls and everything that crawls on the ground,

Genesis 7:9
they came [motivated by God] into the ark with Noah two by two, the male and the female, just as God had commanded Noah.

Genesis 7:10
And after the seven days [God released the rain and] the floodwaters came on the earth.

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep [subterranean waters] burst open, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Judge not, that ye be not judged. This is not to be understood of any sort of judgment; not of judgment in the civil courts of judicature, by proper magistrates, which ought to be made and pass, according to the nature of the case; nor of judgment in the churches of Christ, where offenders are to be called to an account, examined, tried, and dealt with according to the rules of the Gospel; nor of every private judgment, which one man may make upon another, without any detriment to him; but of rash judgment, interpreting men's words and deeds to the worst sense, and censuring them in a very severe manner; even passing sentence on them, with respect to their eternal state and condition. Good is the advice given by the famous Hillell u, who lived a little before Christ's time;

"Do not judge thy neighbour, (says he,) until thou comest into his place.''

It would be well, if persons subject to a censorious spirit, would put themselves in the case and circumstances the persons are in they judge; and then consider, what judgment they would choose others should pass on them. The argument Christ uses to dissuade from this evil, which the Jews were very prone to, is, "that ye be not judged"; meaning, either by men, for such censorious persons rarely have the good will of their fellow creatures, but are commonly repaid in the same way; or else by God, which will be the most awful and tremendous: for such persons take upon them the place of God, usurp his prerogative, as if they knew the hearts and states of men; and therefore will have judgment without mercy at the hands of God.

u Pirke Abot, c. 2. sect. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Judge not ... - This command refers to rash, censorious, and unjust judgment. See Romans 2:1. Luke Luke 6:37 explains it in the sense of “condemning.” Christ does not condemn judging as a magistrate, for that, when according to justice, is lawful and necessary. Nor does he condemn our “forming an opinion” of the conduct of others, for it is impossible “not” to form an opinion of conduct that we know to be evil. But what he refers to is a habit of forming a judgment hastily, harshly, and without an allowance for every palliating circumstance, and a habit of “expressing” such an opinion harshly and unnecessarily when formed. It rather refers to private judgment than “judicial,” and perhaps primarily to the customs of the scribes and Pharisees.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VII.

Our Lord warns men against rash judgment and uncharitable

censures, 1-5.

Shows that holy things must not be profaned, 6;

gives encouragement to fervent persevering prayer, 7-11.

Shows how men should deal with each other, 12.

Exhorts the people to enter in at the strait gate, 13, 14;

to beware of false teachers, who are to be known by their

fruits, 15-20.

Shows that no man shall be saved by his mere profession of

Christianity, however specious, 22, 23.

The parable of the wise man who built his house upon a rock,

24, 25.

Of the foolish man who built his house, without a foundation,

on the sand, 26, 27.

Christ concludes his sermon, and the people are astonished at

his doctrine, 28, 29.

NOTES ON CHAP. VII.

Verse Matthew 7:1. Judge not, that ye be not judged. — These exhortations are pointed against rash, harsh, and uncharitable judgments, the thinking evil, where no evil seems, and speaking of it accordingly. The Jews were highly criminal here, and yet had very excellent maxims against it, as may be seen in Schoettgen. This is one of the most important exhortations in the whole of this excellent sermon. By a secret and criminal disposition of nature, man endeavours to elevate himself above others, and, to do it more effectually, depresses them. His jealous and envious heart wishes that there may be no good quality found but in himself, that he alone may be esteemed. Such is the state of every unconverted man; and it is from this criminal disposition, that evil surmises, rash judgments, precipitate decisions, and all other unjust procedures against our neighbour, flow.