1 Corinthians 11:13

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;

I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’

Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

“ ‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

then you shall inquire, investigate, and ask diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination was done among you,

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”

He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.”

Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

“Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.

Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.

Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man who hears me:

“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?”

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done.

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,

He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near.

Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”

David says, “Let their table be made a snare, a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man’s judgment. Yes, I don’t judge my own self.

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there.

These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.