Judge And Be Judged

for in what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged, and in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you.

who shall render to each according to his works; — read the full passage →

`Judge not, that ye may not be judged, — read the full passage →

for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

so that whoever may eat this bread or may drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, guilty he shall be of the body and blood of the Lord: — read the full passage →

as to wise men I speak--judge ye what I say: — read the full passage →

On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside,

For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me--as gold I go forth.

this is the bread that out of the heaven is coming down, that any one may eat of it, and not die. — read the full passage →

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

for He who is saying, `Thou mayest not commit adultery,' said also, `Thou mayest do no murder;' and if thou shalt not commit adultery, and shalt commit murder, thou hast become a transgressor of law;

for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one <FI>point<Fi> , he hath become guilty of all;

and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance <FI>is<Fi> Mine,

and the truth shall make you free.'

`Judge not, that ye may not be judged, — read the full passage →

To appoint to mourners in Zion, To give to them beauty instead of ashes, The oil of joy instead of mourning, A covering of praise for a spirit of weakness, And He is calling to them, `Trees of righteousness, The planting of Jehovah--to be beautified.'

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,

`Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;

yourselves in the love of God keep ye, waiting for the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ--to life age-during;

And prophesy also to these did the seventh from Adam--Enoch--saying, `Lo, the Lord did come in His saintly myriads,

and we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ; this one is the true God and the life age-during!

and if we have known that He doth hear us, whatever we may ask, we have known that we have the requests that we have requested from Him.

And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us,

Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,

to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering these, which now were told to you (through those who did proclaim good news to you,) in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, to which things messengers do desire to bend looking.

concerning which salvation seek out and search out did prophets who concerning the grace toward you did prophecy,

to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,

My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living,

and we are persuaded, concerning you, beloved, the things that are better, and accompanying salvation, though even thus we speak,

and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.

that the man of God may be fitted--for every good work having been completed.

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed <FI>is<Fi> every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law--to do them,'

and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;

for the all things <FI>are<Fi> because of you, that the grace having been multiplied, because of the thanksgiving of the more, may abound to the glory of God;

for as many as <FI>are<Fi> promises of God, in him <FI>are<Fi> the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;

ye working together also for us by your supplication, that the gift through many persons to us, through many may be thankfully acknowledged for us.

because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort;

but, according as it hath been written, `What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him--'

which no one of the rulers of this age did know, for if they had known, the Lord of the glory they would not have crucified;

for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.

And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the Spirit, testifying fully to the Jews Jesus the Christ;

for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'

Pilate, therefore, said to him, `Art thou then a king?' Jesus answered, `Thou dost say <FI>it<Fi> ; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.'

and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send--Jesus Christ;

every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;

if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or--I do speak from myself.

and said to the woman--`No more because of thy speaking do we believe; for we ourselves have heard and known that this is truly the Saviour of the world--the Christ.'

but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst--to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.'

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

And his disciples remembered that it is written, `The zeal of Thy house did eat me up;'

`And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive--thou--thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;

`And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!

`What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, doth not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, till he may find it?

but I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I pressed till it may be completed!

but I will show to you, whom ye may fear; Fear him who, after the killing, is having authority to cast to the gehenna; yes, I say to you, Fear ye Him.

`And I say to you, my friends, be not afraid of those killing the body, and after these things are not having anything over to do;

To serve Him, in holiness and righteousness Before Him, all the days of our life.

To give to us, without fear, Out of the hand of our enemies having been delivered,

and if it may come to pass that he doth find it, verily I say to you, that he doth rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that have not gone astray;

`What think ye? if a man may have an hundred sheep, and there may go astray one of them, doth he not--having left the ninety-nine, having gone on the mountains--seek that which is gone astray?

so shall it be in the full end of the age, the messengers shall come forth and separate the evil out of the midst of the righteous,

And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.

Who are taking part according to the psaltery, Like David they invented for themselves instruments of music;

And I--I have destroyed the Amorite from before them, Whose height <FI>is<Fi> as the height of cedars, And strong he <FI>is<Fi> as the oaks, And I destroy his fruit from above, And his roots from beneath.

Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah, Say ye unto Him: `Take away all iniquity, and give good, And we do render the fruit of our lips.

In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There <FI>is<Fi> the whoredom of Ephraim--defiled is Israel.

Then these men are saying, `We do not find against this Daniel any cause of complaint, except we have found <FI>it<Fi> against him in the law of his God.'

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego have answered, yea, they are saying to the king Nebuchadnezzar, `We have no need concerning this matter to answer thee.

And My Spirit I give in your midst, And I have done this, so that in My statutes ye walk, And My judgments ye keep, and have done them.

As a shepherd's searching of his drove, In the day of his being in the midst of his scattered flock, so I do seek My flock, And have delivered them out of all places, Whither they have been scattered, In a day of cloud and thick darkness.

And he seeth and turneth back, From all his transgressions that he hath done, He doth surely live, he doth not die,

Their Redeemer <FI>is<Fi> strong, Jehovah of Hosts <FI>is<Fi> His name, He doth thoroughly plead their cause, So as to cause the land to rest, And He hath given trouble to the inhabitants of Babylon.

Also My covenant is broken with David My servant, So that he hath not a son reigning on his throne, And with the Levites the priests, My ministers.

`Thus said Jehovah: If ye do break My covenant of the day, And My covenant of the night, So that they are not daily and nightly in their season,

If these statutes depart from before Me, An affirmation of Jehovah, Even the seed of Israel doth cease From being a nation before Me all the days.

Thus said Jehovah, Who is giving the sun for a light by day, The statutes of moon and stars for a light by night, Quieting the sea when its billows roar, Jehovah of Hosts <FI>is<Fi> His name:

And in prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing, Committing adultery, and walking falsely, Yea, they strengthened the hands of evil doers, So that they have not turned back Each from his wickedness, They have been to me--all of them--as Sodom, And its inhabitants as Gomorrah.

An astonishing and horrible thing hath been in the land.

Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?

Be astonished, ye heavens, at this, Yea, be frightened, be greatly wasted, An affirmation of Jehovah.

And I--this <FI>is<Fi> My covenant with them, said Jehovah, My Spirit that <FI>is<Fi> on thee, And My words that I have put in thy mouth, Depart not from thy mouth, And from the mouth of thy seed, And from the mouth of thy seed's seed, said Jehovah, From henceforth unto the age!

Thus said thy Lord Jehovah, and thy God, He pleadeth <FI>for<Fi> his people: `Lo, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of trembling, The goblet, the cup of My fury, Thou dost not add to drink it any more.

Cause me to remember--we are judged together, Declare thou that thou mayest be justified.

And a work of the righteousness hath been peace, And a service of the righteousness--Keeping quiet and confidence unto the age.

And thine ear heareth a word behind thee, Saying, `This <FI>is<Fi> the way, go ye in it,' When ye turn to the right, And when ye turn to the left.

Declare fat the heart of this people, And its ears declare heavy, And its eyes declare dazzled, Lest it see with its eyes, And with its ears hear, and its heart consider, And it hath turned back, and hath health.'

If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones <FI>are<Fi> over them.

Lest he drink, and forget the decree, And change the judgment of any of the sons of affliction.

Whoso is turning his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer <FI>is<Fi> an abomination.