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Barnes' Notes
Judge not ... - This command refers to rash, censorious, and unjust judgment. See Rom 2:1. Luke Luk 6:37 explains it in the sense of “condemning.” Christ does not condemn judging as a magistrate, for…
Our Saviour is here directing us how to conduct ourselves in reference to the faults of others; and his expressions seem intended as a reproof to the scribes and Pharisees, who were very rigid and…
(a) Judgment on others, Mat 7:1-6.
The passage occurs in St Luke's report of the Sermon on the Mount (ch. Luk 6:37-38), with a different context, and a further illustration of "full measure."
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