Luke 12:57

World English Bible (2000)

Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right?

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  • Deut 32:29 : 29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
  • Matt 15:10-14 : 10 He summoned the multitude, and said to them, "Hear, and understand. 11 That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man." 12 Then the disciples came, and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?" 13 But he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father didn't plant will be uprooted. 14 Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."
  • Matt 21:21 : 21 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don't doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it would be done.
  • Matt 21:32 : 32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn't believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn't even repent afterward, that you might believe him.
  • Luke 21:30 : 30 When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near.
  • John 7:24 : 24 Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
  • Acts 2:40 : 40 With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation!"
  • Acts 13:26-38 : 26 Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you. 27 For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn't know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him. 28 Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed. 29 When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb. 30 But God raised him from the dead, 31 and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people. 32 We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers, 33 that God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, 'You are my Son. Today I have become your father.' 34 "Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: 'I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.' 35 Therefore he says also in another psalm, 'You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.' 36 For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay. 37 But he whom God raised up saw no decay. 38 Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,
  • 1 Cor 11:14 : 14 Doesn't even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Luke 12:56
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    56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don't interpret this time?

  • Matt 7:1-4
    4 verses
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    1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.

    2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

    3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?

    4 Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?

  • Luke 12:58
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    58 For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

  • John 7:24
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    24 Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

  • 1 Cor 6:4-8
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    4 If then, you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?

    5 I say this to move you to shame. Isn't there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

    6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!

    7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

    8 No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.

  • Jas 2:4
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    4 haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

  • Luke 6:37
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    37 Don't judge, and you won't be judged. Don't condemn, and you won't be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

  • Rom 2:1
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    1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

  • John 7:51
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    51 "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"

  • Acts 7:27
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    27 But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

  • Luke 6:41-42
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    41 Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?

    42 Or how can you tell your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,' when you yourself don't see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye.

  • 1 Cor 6:1-2
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    1 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

    2 Don't you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

  • Jas 4:11-12
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    11 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

    12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

  • 1 Cor 5:12
    72%

    12 For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Don't you judge those who are within?

  • Matt 12:37
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    37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."

  • Luke 12:14
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    14 But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?"

  • John 8:15
    72%

    15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

  • Ps 58:1
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    1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?

  • Rom 2:3
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    3 Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

  • Jas 2:12
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    12 So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

  • Luke 12:11-12
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    11 When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don't be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;

    12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say."

  • Rom 14:10
    71%

    10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

  • 2 Chr 19:6
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    6 and said to the judges, "Consider what you do: for you don't judge for man, but for Yahweh; and [he is] with you in the judgment.

  • Deut 12:8
    71%

    8 You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self.

    4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

  • Matt 7:12
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    12 Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

  • John 8:46
    70%

    46 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

  • Jas 5:6
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    6 You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.

  • 1 Cor 11:31
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    31 For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged.

  • Mark 11:31
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    31 They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we should say, 'From heaven;' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?'

  • Luke 6:31
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    31 "As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

  • Acts 4:19
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    19 But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

  • Matt 12:7
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    7 But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.

  • John 7:19
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    19 Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

  • Deut 25:1
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    1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

  • Rom 2:27
    69%

    27 Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

  • Luke 6:46
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    46 "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things which I say?

  • Luke 18:6
    69%

    6 The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.