When Should We Judge?

Mat 7:1  Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Mat 7:2  For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

From these verses, should we conclude that we are never to judge?

If so, how do we reconcile that idea with these verses?

Joh 7:24  Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

1Co 2:15  But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

1Co 10:15  I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

1Co 5:3  For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

1Co 5:4  In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

1Co 5:5  To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

1Co 5:6  Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

1Co 5:7  Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

1Co 5:8  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

1Co 11:31  For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

Pro 28:5  Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.

So what kind of judgment is Jesus condemning in Mat 7?  Just read it and He’ll tell you.

Mat 7:3  And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Mat 7:4  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?

Mat 7:5  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.

Jesus is condemning hypocritical judgment.

Rom 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.

Far from condemning all judgment, Jesus is commanding us TO JUDGE. (cast the mote out of thy brother’s eye).

People that condemn other for judging are judging others for judging.

They are hypocrites for judging others for doing what they are doing themselves, which is precisely what Jesus was condemning.