For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged.
Parallel translations
- KJV For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
- BSB Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.
- NKJV For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.
- NASB But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged.
- NLT But if we would examine ourselves, we would not be judged by God in this way.
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Cross-references · 7
- 1 Jn 1:9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
- Ps 32:3–5When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
- Rev 2:5Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.
- 1 Cor 11:28But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
- Luke 15:18–20I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.
- Rev 3:2–3Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.
- Jer 31:18–20“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
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