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NASB | Matthew 7:2 "For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 7:2 "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. |
Bible Question:
Does this verse mean that we should not preach against the sins of others because we will be guilty of "Judging" others? I have heard this scripture quoted many times from "church go'ers". John the baptist was beheaded after preaching against sin. Was he wrong? Pastor Glenn |
Bible Answer: I believe it is the churches duty and responsibility to teach against sin in and among the body of Christ. Judgement is passed on to sinning members of the body. Sin in the church is an issue that Scripture tells us must be dealt with. Mt 18:15 ¶ Moreover if thy brother (meaning Christian believing brother) shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy (Christian) brother. 16 But if he will not hear [thee, then] take with thee one or two more, (Christian brothers) that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. 17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell [it] unto the church: (not the civil authorities) but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican. Sounds like sin must be dealt with within the body in Matthew and also in 1 Cor. 5 when Paul talks about a professing believer that because of his sin should be purged out, because a little leaven (meaning sin) leavens the whole body. If we don't quench it where it starts then it will spread. But the goal is restoration of the one sinning. That he may feel ashamed. This is why we have leaders within the church, which are to deal with members of the body of Christ which while professing to be in Christ remain in willful, unconfessed lifestyles of habitual sin. Read the account below, and notice THOSE INSIDE (meaning professed believers) are judged by the church body. But THOSE OUTSIDE (meaning unbelievers) God will judge. Judging unbelievers is not our job. We are to love them to Christ. 1 Cor. 5:1 It is reported commonly [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. 2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, [concerning] him that hath so done this deed, 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 6 Your glorying [is] not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth. 9 ¶ I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? 13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person |