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Chapter 7

Judging Others. [a](A)“Stop judging,[b] that you may not be judged.(B) For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.(C) Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?

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Footnotes

  1. 7:1–12 In Mt 7:1 Matthew returns to the basic traditional material of the sermon (Lk 6:37–38, 41–42). The governing thought is the correspondence between conduct toward one’s fellows and God’s conduct toward the one so acting.
  2. 7:1 This is not a prohibition against recognizing the faults of others, which would be hardly compatible with Mt 7:5, 6 but against passing judgment in a spirit of arrogance, forgetful of one’s own faults.