What does the Bible mean with: DON'T JUDGE PEOPLE?

Answer 1

Jesus told some followers, "Do not judge, so that you may not be judged" (Matt. 7:1). Notice the passive form "be judged" refers to God's action in the "Great Judgment," so here the word "judge" means "to condemn." Jesus does not prohibit people from making moral judgments about what is right and wrong - good or bad ... but prohibits condemning one another from the Kingdom, that is God's prerogative.

He is also not suggesting that we can avoid God's judgment by not condemning others ... like other faithful Jews, he assumes God will be the judge of everyone (as does Paul in Romans 14:10). Don't condemn lest you be condemned (by God) is the flip side of the petition for forgiveness in the Lord's Prayer. Those who do not forgive will not be forgiven. Refusing to forgive and condemning are two sides of the same coin.

Answer 2

The word judge is in the Bible 100's of times.Judgment is all over the Bible.We need to help those who want it.I am not anyones final judge,but I can see when they are living contrary to scripture.There is a God who is going to judge,that is clear in the Bible.I find it weird-tons of people lining up to be judged by that Simon guy-but will not believe there is a final judge. We are to "correct the unruly" Ist Thessolonias-but most do not want to hear it-Don't judge me-because men love their sin-John 3:19

Answer 3

If we judge matters that belong to GOD then GOD will judge us the same way. For example: If you could of seen inside my heart 10 minutes before I got saved you would of said that I was going to Hell in a hand basket and you would of been correct. We do not have all the facts, GOD does,, so we leave the Heaven and Hell stuff to him and Jesus. NOW.. the flip side. You are at church and the married couple next to you decide to start making babies right there on the first row. They are not actually sinning but they are going to cause a big disruption in the church service. We would ask then to please go home or get a room because they are distracting the church. You are not judging them. In fact they are not sinning. But they got to take it somewhere else. That we DO judge.

Answer 4

From what I know the bible says not to judge people because it is God's job to judge. To judge would be to sin.

Answer 5

The Bible says "by their fruits you will know them" - that's not judgment - that is recognizing what is and what isn't. Judging has the connotation of "passing sentence upon" and "condemnation." There is a difference between "passing sentence upon" and informing someone what the consequences of something is. There is also a difference between "condemnation" and conviction. These concepts are misunderstood all the time.

Answer 6

“Stop Judging”

How easy it is for imperfect humans to point out other people’s failings while ignoring their own! This inclination, though, makes us vulnerable to hypocrisy. “Hypocrite!” Jesus said. “First extract the rafter from your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to extract the straw from your brother’s eye.” We do well to heed his counsel: “Stop judging that you may not be judged; for with what judgment you are judging, you will be judged . . . Why, then, do you look at the straw in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the rafter in your own eye?”—Matthew 7:1-5.

When others at times do things that seem hypocritical, we must be careful not to label them hastily as hypocrites. The apostle Peter, for example, “went withdrawing and separating himself” from Gentile fellow believers in Antioch so as to please visitors of Jewish background from Jerusalem. Barnabas ‘was also led along with Peter and others in this pretense.’ Peter did this despite the fact that he had been privileged to open the way for Gentiles to be admitted to the Christian congregation. (Galatians 2:11-14; Acts 10:24-28, 34, 35) But this slip on the part of Barnabas and Peter surely did not put them in the same category as the scribes and Pharisees or Judas Iscariot.

Answer 7

The word used in the Greek, krisis or krino, meant "to put to trial, to sentence, to put through a judicial process, to condemn"

The accurate translation is "do not condemn".

The difference between judging and condemning.... In a Biblical sense, condemning is saying, "I have the power to sentence you to hell or inflict this kind of punishment on you" but judgment, which is permitted, is simply to say, "what you are doing is wrong and you should be careful.............." but ultimately Christians cannot inflict any kind of punishment - that is up to God. So long as we have breath in us, we can escape condemnation by finding atonement. Condemnation is reserved for the afterlife.

We are free to judge between wicked and righteous, to proclaim when something is immoral, and to separate ourselves from wicked people, but we cannot actually do any harm against them.

Answer 8

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus taught that we shouldn't worry about what others do or don't do. Instead, we should make sure we are doing what is right. In Matthew 7:1-5, Jesus shows that we often make a big deal about other peoples' faults. Meanwhile we often overlook our own faults. He says it's like trying to get a speck of dust out of our friend's eye, while we have a huge stick in our own eye. First we should take care of our own problems and faults, before we tell others how to fix theirs.

God Bless You

Answer 9

It means that it is not our job to judge others. That is God's job not ours. Maybe some people should remember that.

Answer 10

You are to judge in righteousness.

2Tim.3:1-7 are people you are to shun, if you are decent, do not hang around with indecent one, it is not judging them, it is seeing what they are that is no honor to God and stay away from it. To much sympathy for bad, can make you the guilty one, so if you do not do it, do not hang around it. Also family may turn from those who love God and his word above all the bad stuff Matt.10:34-38;