Scripture Post #136: *WHY JUDGE?*

Romans 14:
10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.


Note: This Scripture was from Paul, a servant & Apostle of Christ, to all that were in Rome (Rom. 1:1 & 7).

This Scripture must be understood correctly to be implemented the way God wants it to. Understand the context given: "Why judge or set at nought thy brother?" The definition for nought can mean: morally bad; wicked. The definition for, set at nought: to regard or treat as of no importance; disdain. This Scripture doesn't mean, don't judge. It means, don't judge in this way (to set at nought). And notice the word, "brother." We are never to judge the world, that's God's job (1 Cor. 5:12-13). 1 Cor. 5:9-13 states that we are certainly to judge our brethren (fellow Christians). Matt. 7:1-5 let's us know from Jesus, how to judge. To not judge hypocritically. But to get ourselves together to see clearly enough to judge our brother correctly (This is in Matt. 7:5.). Don't judge your fellow Christian brethren by setting them at nought. Remember to judge correctly. 
1 Cor. 5:9: "I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
[verse 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.
[verse 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.
[verse 12:] For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
[verse 13:] But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person."
Matt. 7:1: "Judge not, that ye be not judged. 
[verse 2:] For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 
[verse 3:] And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 
[verse 4:] Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 
[verse 5:] Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye."


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