Tag: Bible verses about not judging others

Bible Verse of The Day – 11-27-23

Matthew 7:1 (NJKV) 1 “Judge not, that you be not judged.

This single verse has been the topic of many conversations, discussions, and debates down through the centuries since Jesus spoke these words.

What did He mean by it?

Is there a deeper meaning than the few simple words are implying?

Judging others is something that we all do to some extent. It is a natural human tendency to see someone doing something and pass judgment on them.

But what about the words of Jesus? Does what He said mean that we cannot or should not ever judge anyone?

Before we go any further, we need to look at the word, “judge”.

In the context that Jesus spoke these words, judge literally means condemn.

Some might think of judging as the harmless passing of opinions about someone for their appearance or their behavior.

But Jesus was telling us not to condemn. There is nothing harmless about condemning others.

It is, in fact, very harmful.

When we see others behaving in ways that are not rooted in righteousness, condemning that person will never help them.

There are times to correct someone, and there are times to pray for them. We need to lean on the Holy Spirit to show us how to handle each situation as we encounter them.

We need to understand that each action we take and every word that we speak should be done with redemption as the end goal.

Speaking harshly and outwardly condemning a person will do one thing; push them away from us.

This eliminates any opportunity we might have had to help them in a redeeming way.

So, let us remember that although a person’s behavior may not be what it should be, our goal as a follower of Christ should always be to create an environment where redemption should be our goal, even if we may never see that person again.

Looking down upon a person never brings good.

Redemption, and change in a person’s life, can come only when we treat others as the Holy Spirit leads us to do, and we work to bring redemption or restoration to them, not condemn them.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-5-23 – Understanding Righteous Judgment

Please click to watch the video now.Greetings in the precious name of Jesus. 

God is faithful in all things, and He is the same yesterday, today and forever! 

We have a new video for you today, Understanding Righteous Judgment. 

In this new video, we discuss what it means to judge someone righteously, and what Jesus meant when He told us not to judge others unless we want to be judged. 

Keep pressing into God and draw near to Him in all things. 

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We love you all. 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443  

401-439-3780  

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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-10-22

Matthew 7:1-2 (NKJV) 1 “Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

Judging or finding fault with others is a big thing with Christians, and it can become a problem.

We have not become perfect and without fault just because we have become a Christian.

We still sin and we still have many things to work on. We struggle with our weaknesses. They tend to show up and remind us of this every now and then.

So, why do we point out the faults of others and ignore our own?

Most times it is because we are trying to feel better about ourselves. We don’t want to have to deal with our own sins, so if we can find someone with what we would call a “more obvious or worse sin” we tend to point it out. It is a huge distraction for most of us.

We need to get our eyes off of others and pay attention to our own sin that needs dealing with.

Some of us our dealing with things that have been with us since our childhood.

Some of us our dealing with things that have happened while we were under some sort of abusive situation.

And others are dealing with sinful addictions that we have learned to hide very well, etc.

We all have our own faults/sins, so pointing out the sins of others, and talking about it, will not take God’s eyes off of ours. Let us deal with our own faults and pray for others that need a change of heart as well.

God is faithful to help us remain humble in our hearts while listening and watching others that need help in their walk as well as us.

Finding fault and judging won’t get us anywhere but in trouble.

Job 6:24 (NKJV) 24 “Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 1-18-22

Matthew 7:1 (NKJV) 7 “Judge not, that you be not judged.

The one thing we can learn not to do is judge others. How do we tell ourselves not to judge, and then follow through with it?

There is a way, and that is to remember and keep at the forefront of our minds that we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

All of us have done things. And some of us continue to do things that are disturbing or sinful.

Some sins may seem bigger than others to us in our minds. But in God’s eyes, sin is sin.

Knowing and always remembering who we are and why we need salvation will keep us from judging or being so hard on  others.

Sometimes we need to know about a person’s situation, so we know where they are coming from. This may sometimes change our perspective, and help keep us from judging them incorrectly.

Let’s be careful that we are not judging and talking about others just because they may be a little different than what we would expect them to be.

We all have our sins and we all need to be forgiven for some things most days.

Bless and pray for our brothers and sisters, and even those that are difficult to be around. They need Him too. Amen.

James 5:16 (NKJV) 16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-30-19

Matthew 7:3 (NKJV) 3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 

Why does it seem OK for us to act a certain way, but when someone else does the same thing, we don’t like it?

We make a big deal out of it. We don’t let them have any excuses for how they behaved. No, we do not overlook it or take it lightly. Instead, we hold on to it.

What are we doing when we act like this? We could have a big old plank in our eye, but we will strain to see what others need to fix in their lives.

Let’s just call it what it is today.

Matthew 7:2 (NKJV) 2 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

How do we stop spending so much time judging others so harshly? We start looking at ourselves.

Boy, when we start to see ourselves and how we act at times, we won’t be so quick to look down our noses at others.

When we get real and we start to watch what we say and do, or pay closer attention to our thoughts, watch out. We will find out that there are things we need to tend to immediately.

One of the biggest ways the devil gets us distracted from seeing our own faults is by putting others in front of us.

But we can beat him at his game. How? By putting God’s word into action. This verse says a lot. It may take us time to get this right, but we have to start somewhere.

Looking at ourselves is going to be war for our flesh. Flesh does not like to look at itself as ever being in the wrong. Our first battle will be with our own self. When we get past that, we will battle the enemy and his strategies or attacks.

Either battle, God will help us win as we put our foot forward and really want to learn and do what it takes to change. Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-25-18

Psalm 119:7 (NKJV) 7 I will praise You with uprightness of heart, When I learn Your righteous judgments.

The Lord has His way of helping us to see things correctly when we listen and let Him teach us.

Our judgements of things and of people are off because our judgement is tainted. We are not perfect like Jesus and our Heavenly Father. They have righteous judgement. They are not wrong in their judgement. They are to the point and on target. They know exactly what is wrong in any given person or situation. And they know what it will take to fix the problem.

We can never reach a point in our walk with God where we think we can judge someone righteously and accurately, as God can. This is dangerous because we don’t see the whole picture; only bits and pieces.

God sees it all and He knows from start to finish how things will turn out. We have no place in playing God’s role.

Matthew 7:1 (NKJV) 1 “Judge not, that you be not judged.

Judge no one.

Let’s work on ourselves and praise God for all of His help in guiding us to a straight and narrow path. Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-29-18

John 8:2-5 (NKJV) 2 Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them. 3 Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, 4 they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?”

This woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. In the day of Moses, the law commanded that she should be stoned to death for this.

The Scribes and Pharisees wanted to see how Jesus would react to this situation.

Jesus’ reaction was not what they had expected. And many times, in our own personal walk with Him, His reaction to things may not be what we thought it would be.

That is why we must go to Him and get His advice and wisdom before we make our decisions. He may have a different outlook on things and a different answer.

When they brought this situation before Jesus, what did He do? He made them look at themselves first.

John 8:7 (NKJV) 7 So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.”

This is a good lesson for all of us. It will teach us to take a look at ourselves before we begin pointing fingers at others for their sins.

No one threw a stone at this woman. One by one, they all walked away. We should do the same. Walk away.

Matthew 7 (NKJV) 1 “Judge not, that you be not judged.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-3-14

Matthew 7:1 (NKJV) 1 “Judge not, that you be not judged.

Being careful not to judge is a daily, minute by minute decision that we must work hard at doing every day.

Judging others can cause more harm than good, because we don’t know how to judge with righteous judgement. ONLY God can do this. We, as God’s children, have to understand this more than anyone.

As we walk this walk with Christ, the closer we get to Him, the more humble we should become; Not puffed up, not arrogant and definitely not untouchable.

Remember the woman at the well, in John 4:18? She’d had 5 husbands in her life. Jesus sat with her and talked one-on-one with her.

The woman that had a bleeding issue for twelve years, in Matthew 9:20, actually touched His garment, and He stopped and spoke to her in that moment of need, and brought healing to her.

We all need Jesus, and He is there for us, no matter what we have done. He is reachable!!

People need to be able to come to us and talk to us. And we in return should not be judging them in their situation. We are no better.

We might have been convicted in those areas and we may have changed or turned away from doing those things, but we should not push our convictions on anyone else.

Trying to force someone to see things the way we see them is not our job as God’s children. It’s different if we are asked for our opinion. Then we can share. But even in that, we should never push it on them.

We are called to love, not judge. Letting God do His job, and us doing ours, will make this world a better place. Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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