Matthew 7:5

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

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

Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

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.

Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you.”

Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.

“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

He answered them, “Which of you, if your son or an ox fell into a well, wouldn’t immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?”

“ ‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

“ ‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

“But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time?

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

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.

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

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their heads were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their command.

Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,

One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him.

But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

When they didn’t agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one word, “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”

Get up! Sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, “There is a devoted thing among you, Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted thing from among you.”

Deborah said to Barak, “Go; for this is the day in which Yahweh has delivered Sisera into your hand. Hasn’t Yahweh gone out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.

Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”

They arose early; and about daybreak, Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, “Get up, that I may send you away.” Saul arose, and they both went outside, he and Samuel, together.

Then they told Saul, saying, “Behold, the people are sinning against Yahweh, in that they eat meat with the blood.” He said, “You have dealt treacherously. Roll a large stone to me today!”

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Arrogant speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her room.

“Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can’t discern the signs of the times!

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.

They answered Jesus, and said, “We don’t know.” He also said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.

and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts:

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, one of you will betray me—he who eats with me.”

He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’ ”

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

Therefore the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath, and lead him away to water?

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, “Buy what things we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.

As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.

For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

Or how can you tell your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye.

The evil spirit answered, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?”