Luke 6:37

Jesus warns against a censorious, condemning spirit and commends a forgiving one. The measure we extend to others reflects and affects the measure we receive.

Cross-references · 17

• Eph 4:32Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.
• Jas 5:9Do not complain about one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at the door!
• Matt 7:1–5“Do not judge, or you will be judged.
• Mark 11:25And when you stand to pray, if you hold anything against another, forgive it, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your trespasses as well.”
• 1 Cor 13:4–7Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
• Rom 2:1–2You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on another. For on whatever grounds you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.
• Rom 14:10–16Why, then, do you judge your brother? Or why do you belittle your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.
• Matt 5:7Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
• Rom 14:3–4The one who eats everything must not belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted him.
• Col 3:13Bear with one another and forgive any complaint you may have against someone else. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
• Matt 18:34–35In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should repay all that he owed.
• Matt 6:14–15For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
• 1 Cor 4:3–5I care very little, however, if I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.
• Jas 4:11–12Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.
• Luke 17:3–4Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.
• Isa 65:5They say, ‘Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am holier than you!’ Such people are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.
• Matt 18:30But he refused. Instead, he went and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay his debt.

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