![]() ![]() While many stop after verse 1, it is important to keep reading. 3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Let’s read this verse in context and see what Jesus is really getting at!ġ “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. ![]() Is this really a passage suggesting to lay aside all critical-thinking and live with total tolerance? Yet, here is a great example of how one verse (when read in isolation) gives us the wrong message. We believe only God can judge others, followed by paraphrasing Matthew 7:1 quoting Jesus, “judge not lest you be judged.” ![]() Tupac, Miley Cyrus, and plenty of other celebrities have been known to say: “Only God can judge me.” And truth be told, many of us believe they are right. ![]()
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