Matthew 7:2 - New Revised Standard Version

² For with the judgment you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² For just as you judge and criticize and condemn others, you will be judged and criticized and condemned, and in accordance with the measure you [use to] deal out to others, it will be dealt out again to you.

American Standard Version (1901)

² For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you.

Common English Bible

² You’ll receive the same judgment you give. Whatever you deal out will be dealt out to you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² For with whatever judgment you judge, so shall you be judged; and with whatever measure you measure out, so shall it be measured back to you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.

Matthew 7:2 Cross References

2 Samuel 21:5

They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and planned to destroy us, so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel—

Psalm 109:17

He loved to curse; let curses come on him. He did not like blessing; may it be far from him.

Exodus 21:24

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

Isaiah 33:1

Ah, you destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed; you treacherous one, with whom no one has dealt treacherously! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have stopped dealing treacherously, you will be dealt with treacherously.

Jeremiah 34:17

Therefore, thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed me by granting a release to your neighbors and friends; I am going to grant a release to you, says the Lord—a release to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine. I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Jeremiah 51:24

I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the wrong that they have done in Zion, says the Lord.

Obadiah 1:15

For the day of the Lord is near against all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.

Matthew 6:14

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you;

Mark 4:24

And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear; the measure you give will be the measure you get, and still more will be given you.

Luke 6:38

give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap; for the measure you give will be the measure you get back.”

2 Corinthians 9:6

The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

James 2:13

For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.

Revelation 18:6

Render to her as she herself has rendered, and repay her double for her deeds; mix a double draught for her in the cup she mixed.

Judges 1:7

Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has paid me back.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Judges 5:27

He sank, he fell, he lay still at her feet; at her feet he sank, he fell; where he sank, there he fell dead.

1 Samuel 15:33

But Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother shall be childless among women.” And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.