Read It Again: The Verse That Became an Excuse (Ep 189)
In this fifth episode of Read It Again, I take on one of the most quoted lines in the Bible: "Judge not, lest ye be judged." It gets used to shut down conversations before they start, but Jesus didn't stop at verse one. In Matthew 7:1-5, he goes on to talk about specks, planks, and hypocrisy, and what he says completely reshapes how we should hear that opening line. I walk through what the Greek word for judge actually means, why Paul expects the church to evaluate behavior in 1 Corinthians 5:12, and what real accountability looks like when it comes from humility instead of superiority. If…
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