“Judge not, that ye be not judged.” Matt. 7:1.
2. What is Satan called in the Scriptures?
“The accuser of our brethren ... which accused them before our God day and night.” Rev. 12:10.
Note.—Then when we judge, accuse, and condemn one another, we are doing the work of Satan.
3. If we bite and devour one another, what may we expect?
“But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.” Gal. 5:15.
4. Before attempting to judge, criticize, or correct others, what should we first do?
“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye: and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.” Matt. 7:3-5.
5. What did Christ say He did not come to do?
“If any man hear My words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.” “For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.” John 12:47; 3:17.