Mt 7:1-5
[Jesus said to his disciples,] 1“Stop judging, that you may not be judged. 2For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you. 3Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye? 4How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove that splinter from your eye,’ while the wooden beam is in your eye? 5You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.”
Stop judging, that you may not be judged. One secret fear we may all have is how the Lord will judge our lives when we come face-to-face with him. God will surely discover everything we have done and all the sins we have committed. God will judge our every action, and we may be found wanting and thrown with the goats to hell.
One sure way to escape this judgment, says the Lord, so that we need not go through a scrutiny before the Lord on judgment day, is this: Stop judging that you may not be judged. Start understanding instead, and you will be understood.