Luke 6:37

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ ‹Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μὴ κρίνετε, καὶ οὐ μὴ κριθῆτε: μὴ καταδικάζετε, καὶ οὐ μὴ καταδικασθῆτε: ἀπολύετε, καὶ ἀπολυθήσεσθε:

Transliteration

Mē krinete, and ou mē you shall be krithēte: mē katadikazete, and ou mē you shall be katadikasthēte: apolyete, and you shall be apolythēsesthe:

Grammar Details

• *Mē*: negative particle - not
• *krinete*: verb, present active imperative, 2nd person plural - judge!
• *ou*: negative particle - not
• *krithēte*: verb, aorist passive subjunctive, 2nd person plural - you might be judged
• *katadikazete*: verb, present active imperative, 2nd person plural - condemn!
• *katadikasthēte*: verb, aorist passive subjunctive, 2nd person plural - you might be condemned
• *apolyete*: verb, present active imperative, 2nd person plural - release/forgive!
• *apolythēsesthe*: verb, future passive, 2nd person plural - you will be released/forgiven

Word Meanings

• *Mē*: not (with imperative, prohibiting action)
• *krinete*: judge/evaluate/condemn
• *ou mē*: double negative for emphasis - certainly not/by no means
• *krithēte*: be judged/evaluated/condemned
• *katadikazete*: condemn/pass sentence on
• *katadikasthēte*: be condemned/sentenced
• *apolyete*: release/let go/forgive/pardon
• *apolythēsesthe*: be released/let go/forgiven/pardoned

Referenced Verses

• Rom 14:3-4 : 3 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. 4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
• Mark 11:25 : 25 ‹And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.›
• Col 3:13 : 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.
• Jas 4:11-12 : 11 ¶ Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of [his] brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
• Jas 5:9 : 9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
• Luke 17:3-4 : 3 ‹Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.› 4 ‹And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.›
• Rom 2:1-2 : 1 ¶ Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. 2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
• Eph 4:32 : 32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
• Rom 14:10-16 : 10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. 11 For it is written, [As] I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. 12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. 13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in [his] brother's way. 14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that [there is] nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him [it is] unclean. 15 But if thy brother be grieved with [thy] meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. 16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
• 1 Cor 4:3-5 : 3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. 4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
• Isa 65:5 : 5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These [are] a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
• Matt 5:7 : 7 ‹Blessed› [are] ‹the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.›
• Matt 6:14-15 : 14 ‹For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:› 15 ‹But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.›
• Matt 7:1-5 : 1 ¶ ‹Judge not, that ye be not judged.› 2 ‹For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.› 3 ‹And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?› 4 ‹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?› 5 ‹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 18:30 : 30 ‹And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.›
• Matt 18:34-35 : 34 ‹And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.› 35 ‹So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.›
• 1 Cor 13:4-7 : 4 ¶ Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.