Romans 14:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or {G2532} thou again, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Σὺ δὲ τί κρίνεις τὸν ἀδελφόν σου; ἢ καὶ σὺ τί ἐξουθενεῖς τὸν ἀδελφόν σου; πάντες γὰρ παραστησόμεθα τῷ βήματι τοῦ Χριστοῦ.

Transliteration

But you why krineis the adelphon of you? Or also you why exoutheneis the adelphon of you? For pantes we will parastēsometha to the bēmati of the Christou.

Grammar Details

• *krineis*: present, active, indicative, 2nd singular - judge
• *adelphon*: accusative, masculine, singular - brother
• *exoutheneis*: present, active, indicative, 2nd singular - despise/regard as nothing
• *pantes*: nominative, masculine, plural - all
• *parastēsometha*: future, middle, indicative, 1st plural - will stand before/present ourselves
• *bēmati*: dative, neuter, singular - judgment seat
• *Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Christ/Christ's

Word Meanings

• *krineis*: judge/condemn/criticize
• *adelphon*: brother/fellow believer
• *exoutheneis*: despise/regard as nothing/treat with contempt
• *parastēsometha*: will stand before/will present ourselves/will appear
• *bēmati*: judgment seat/tribunal

Referenced Verses

• 2 Cor 5:10 : 10 For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things [done] in the body, according to what he hath done, whether [it be] good or bad.
• 1 Cor 4:5 : 5 Wherefore judge {G5100} nothing before {G302} the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each man have his praise from God.
• Rom 2:16 : 16 in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ.
• Rom 14:3-4 : 3 Let not him that eateth set at nought him that eateth not; and let not him that eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. 4 Who art thou that judgest the servant of another? to his own lord he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be made to stand; for the Lord hath power to make him stand.
• Eccl 12:14 : 14 For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
• Matt 25:31-32 : 31 But when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory: 32 and before him shall be gathered all the nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats;
• John 5:22 : 22 For neither doth the Father judge any man, but he hath given all judgment unto the Son;
• Acts 10:42 : 42 And he charged us to preach unto the people, and to testify that this is he who is ordained of God [to be] the Judge of the living and the dead.
• Jude 1:14-15 : 14 And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, 15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have ungodly wrought, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
• Rev 20:11-15 : 11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13 And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14 And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, [even] the lake of fire. 15 And if any was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
• Acts 17:31 : 31 inasmuch as he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
• Acts 4:11 : 11 He is the stone which was set at nought of you the builders, which was made the head of the corner.
• Luke 23:11 : 11 And Herod with his soldiers set him at nought, and mocked him, and arraying him in gorgeous apparel sent him back to Pilate.