Ah, you that turn justice to wormwood, and bring righteousness to the ground!
John 8:15 - New Revised Standard Version You judge by human standards; I judge no one. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You [set yourselves up to] judge according to the flesh (by what you see). [You condemn by external, human standards.] I do not [set Myself up to] judge or condemn or sentence anyone. American Standard Version (1901) Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. Common English Bible You judge according to human standards, but I judge no one. Catholic Public Domain Version You judge according to the flesh. I do not judge anyone. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version You judge according to the flesh: I judge not any man. |
Ah, you that turn justice to wormwood, and bring righteousness to the ground!
Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
So the law becomes slack and justice never prevails. The wicked surround the righteous— therefore judgment comes forth perverted.
But he said to him, “Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?”
I do not judge anyone who hears my words and does not keep them, for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my followers would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here.”
“Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
She said, “No one, sir.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way, and from now on do not sin again.”]
Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, when you judge others; for in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things.
Those who are spiritual discern all things, and they are themselves subject to no one else's scrutiny.
From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way.
have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”