Matthew 7:2

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. FOR WITH WHAT JUDGMENT YE JUDGE, YE SHALL BE JUDGED: AND WITH WHAT MEASURE YE METE [WHATEVER STANDARD OF JUDGMENT YE APPLY TO OTHERS], IT SHALL BE MEASURED TO YOU [AGAIN], [ antimetreetheesetai (G488). The anti (G473) - 'again' or 'in return'-which belongs to the corresponding passage in Luke 6:38, has hardly any support here; though of course it is implied.] This proverbial maxim is used by our Lord in other connections-as in Mark 4:24, and with a slightly different application in...

1-6 We must judge ourselves, and judge of our own acts, but not make our word a law to everybody. We must not judge rashly, nor pass judgment upon our brother without any ground. We must not make the worst of people. Here is a just reproof to those who quarrel with their brethren for small faults, while they allow themselves in greater ones. Some sins are as motes, while others are as beams; some as a gnat, others as a camel. Not that there is any sin little; if it be a mote, or splinter, it is in the eye; if a gnat, it is in the throat; both are painful and dangerous, and we cannot be easy or well till they are got out. That which charity teaches us to call but a splinter in our brother's eye, true repentance and godly sorrow will teach us to call a beam in our own. It is as strange that a man can be in a sinful, miserable condition, and not be aware of it, as that a man should have a...

Verse Matthew 7:2. _FOR WITH WHAT JUDGMENT_] He who is _severe_ on _others_ will naturally excite their _severity_ against _himself_. The censures and calumnies which we have suffered are probably the just reward of those which we have dealt out to others....

WITH WHAT JUDGMENT ... - This was a proverb among the Jews. It expressed a truth; and Christ did not hesitate to adopt it as conveying his own sentiments. It refers no less to the way in which people will judge of us, than to the rule by which God will judge us. See 2 Samuel 22:27; Mark 4:24; James 2:13. METE - Measure. You shall be judged by the same rule which you apply to others....

EXPOSITION MATTHEW 7:1 (2) As anxiety about the things of this life hinders us Godwards (Matthew 6:19), so does censoriousness manwards (Matthew 7:1), our Lord thus tacitly opposing two typically Jewish faults. Censoriousness—the personal danger of having it (Matthew 7:1, Matthew 7:2), its seriousness as a sign of ignorance and as a hindrance to spiritual vision (Matthew 7:3), even though there must be a r

FOR WITH WHAT JUDGMENT YE JUDGE, YE SHALL BE JUDGED,.... Both by God and men; to which agree those proverbial sentences used by the Jews; "He that judgeth his neighbour according to the balance of righteousness, or innocence, they judge him according to righteousness.'' w And a little after, "As ye have judged me according to the balance of righteousness, God will judge you according to the balance of righteousness.'' Hence that advice of Joshua ben Perachiah x, who, by the Jewish writers, is said to be the master of Christ; "Judge every man according to the balance of righteousness.'' Which their commentators explain thus y; when you see a man as it were in "equilibrio", inclining to neither part, it is not clear from what he does, that he is either good or evil, righteous or unrighteous; yet when you see him do a thing which may be interpreted either to a good or a bad sense, it...

Matthew 7:1. _Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again._ Use your judgment, of course: the verse implies that you will judge in a right sense. But do not indulge the criticizing faculty upon others in censorious manner, or as if you were set in authority, and had a right to dispense judgment among your fellows. If you impute motives, and pretend to read hearts, others will do the same towards you. A hard and censorious behaviour is sure to provoke reprisals. Those around you will pick up the peck measure you have been using, and measure your corn with it. You do not object to men forming a fair opinion of your character, neither are you forbidden to do the same towards them, but as you would object to their sitting in judgment upon you, do not sit in judgment upon them. Thi

CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Judgment of Righteousness.(Matthew 7:1 .) 2. Warning against False Prophets.(Matthew 7:15 .) 3. Warning against False Professors. (Matthew 7:21 .)_ The chapter which follows contains the last words of the great discourse of our Lord. The contents of this chapter are very instructive and form a most fitting end of the declaration of the King. The first few verses contain a warning against judging. We have in the beginning of the chapter something which is altogether different from the last section of the sixth chapter. There we saw the heir of the Kingdom in the midst of the world, how he is to trust in and depend on the Father and seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, h

AGAINST JUDGING (Luke 6:37 f., Luke 6:41 f.)· Mt. here returns (from Matthew 5:48) to the Sermon as it stood in Q. The subjects of the kingdom are warned against a censorious habit of mind; judging involves judgment, ultimate and Divine, or (as Mt. interprets it) present and human. Note how Lk. in the parallel to Matthew 7:2 goes on to enjoin a kindly bearing towards others. Matthew 7:3 illustrates the warning of Matthew 7:1. MOTE: a piece of dry wood or straw, a chip or splinter. Cf.

WITH WHAT JUDGMENT YE JUDGE YE SHALL BE JUDGED. Not by men, but by God. He takes note of the unkind, harsh, censorious spirit, and deals with the man according to his own spirit. There is declared here. great principle that runs through the moral government of God: _Whatsoever. man soweth, that shall he also reap._ He shall be paid for his conduct in kind. If he sows to unkindness, he will reap it; if harsh and unloving, he will reap it; if unforgiving, he will not be forgiven. If, on the other hand, he is kind, merciful, loving, he will reap these things. God permits each one to choose just what kind of treatment he shall have, and what kind of an eternity he will experience....