Judging, and the beam in your own eye
Judging, and the beam in your own eye · The two commandments everything hangs on
What it covers
Four roots on judging and love. "Judge not" ends four verses later with an instruction to go and remove the speck, once your own beam is out. Then the beam itself, and the two commandments the Law and the Prophets hang on — one in Hebrew from Leviticus, one from Deuteronomy.
Four roots
Do not judge, or you will be judged the same way
Matthew 7:1 · Sermon on the Mount
“Judge not, that ye be not judged.”
Matthew 7:1 (KJV)
“For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.”
Matthew 7:2 (KJV)
“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”
Matthew 7:3 (KJV)
“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.”
Matthew 7:5 (KJV)
- κρίνω KREE-no Properly, to distinguish, decide; by implication, to try, condemn, punish Greek
Remove the beam from your own eye first
Matthew 7:5 · Sermon on the Mount
“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.”
Matthew 7:5 (KJV)
- ὑποκριτής hoo-po-kree-TACE An actor under an assumed character (stage-player) Greek
- δοκός dok-OS A roof timber Greek
- κάρφος KAR-fos A dry twig, a chip of straw Greek
- διαβλέπω dee-ah-BLEP-oh To look through, recover full vision Greek
Love your neighbour as yourself
Leviticus 19:18 · the Holiness Code
“Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.”
Leviticus 19:18 (KJV)
“Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.”
Leviticus 19:15 (KJV)
“Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.”
Leviticus 19:16 (KJV)
“Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.”
Leviticus 19:17 (KJV)
- נָטַר nah-TAR To guard; figuratively, to cherish (anger) Hebrew
- רֵעַ RAY-ah An associate," from a root meaning to pasture Hebrew
Love God with all your heart, soul and might
Deuteronomy 6:5 · the Shema
“And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”
Deuteronomy 6:5 (KJV)
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:”
Deuteronomy 6:4 (KJV)
“And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:”
Deuteronomy 6:6 (KJV)
“And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”
Deuteronomy 6:7 (KJV)
“And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.”
Deuteronomy 6:8 (KJV)
“And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.”
Deuteronomy 6:9 (KJV)
- נֶפֶשׁ NEH-fesh A breathing creature; vitality Hebrew
- מְאֹד meh-ODE Everywhere else an adverb: "very, exceedingly, muchness Hebrew
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These four roots are 6, 24, 8, 9 of a hundred. The rest are in the book, one chapter each.
100 Roots in Scripture — the word underneath, the paragraph around it, and the complication worth keeping.
