Matthew 7:2 - Revised Standard Version

² For with the judgment you pronounce 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

Woe to you, destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed; you treacherous one, with whom none has dealt treacherously! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have made an end of dealing treacherously, you will be dealt with treacherously.

Jeremiah 34:17

Therefore, thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed me by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim to you liberty to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, says the Lord. I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Jeremiah 51:24

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

Obadiah 1:15

For the day of the Lord is near upon 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 men their trespasses, your heavenly Father also will forgive you;

Mark 4:24

And he said to them, “Take heed 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; 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: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

James 2:13

For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy; yet 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

And Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and their great toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has requited me.” And 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

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