Matt 7:1-5

“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”  (NIV)

This is the favorite Bible verse of many because they somehow think it grants them license to ignore all those other  Bible verses.  You know. The ones that condemn sin. The  verse about judging gets taken out of context all too frequently.  The Bible actually commands us to make judgments. (1 Cor 5) and Jesus was not forbidding the making of a judgment. He was forbidding self righteous hypocrites who saw another person’s sin but did not see their own.  If we would judge our own sin, we could also judge someone else’s.

“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”

See?  We are allowed to remove the speck from our brother’s eye. It’s just that we have to remove our own log first.

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