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Scripture Text for Matthew 7:1 “Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. 2 For the way you judge others is how you will be judged — the measure with which you measure out will be used to measure to you. 3 Why do you see the splinter in your brother’s eye but not notice the log in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the splinter out of your eye,’ when you have the log in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite! First, take the log out of your own eye; then you will see clearly, so that you can remove the splinter from your brother’s eye!
6 “Don’t give to dogs what is holy, and don’t throw your pearls to the pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, then turn and attack you.
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John Wesley's Notes-Commentary for Matthew 7:1-6
Verse 2
[2] For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you — Awful words! So we may, as it were, choose for ourselves, whether God shall be severe or merciful to us. God and man will favour the candid and benevolent: but they must expect judgment without mercy, who have showed no mercy.
Verse 3
[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?
In particular, why do you open your eyes to any fault of your brother, while you yourself are guilty of a much greater? The mote - The word properly signifies a splinter or shiver of wood. This and a beam, its opposite, were proverbially used by the Jews, to denote, the one, small infirmities, the other, gross, palpable faults. Luke 6:41.
Verse 4
[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?
How sayest thou — With what face?
Verse 5
[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.
Thou hypocrite — It is mere hypocrisy to pretend zeal for the amendment of others while we have none for our own.
Then — When that which obstructed thy sight is removed.
Verse 6
[6] Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Here is another instance of that transposition, where of the two things proposed, the latter is first treated of.
Give not — to dogs - lest turning they rend you: Cast not - to swine - lest they trample them under foot. Yet even then, when the beam is cast out of thine own eye, Give not - That is, talk not of the deep things of God to those whom you know to be wallowing in sin. neither declare the great things God hath done for your soul to the profane, furious, persecuting wretches. Talk not of perfection, for instance, to the former; not of your experience to the latter. But our Lord does in nowise forbid us to reprove, as occasion is, both the one and the other.
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The Daily Devotionals
Monday, August 8, 2016
Text to read: Matthew 7:1-6
- Describe a time in your life when you were too harshly judged.
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Text to read: Matthew 7:1-6
- Read Matthew 7:1-6 carefully.
- Does Jesus prohibit any judgement?
- How?
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Text to read: Matthew 7:1-6
- How do you make judgements?
- What carries the most weight with you?
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Text to read: Matthew 7:1-6
- Describe the the kind of hypocrisy Jesus is talking about.
Friday, August 12, 2016
Text to read: Matthew 7:1-6
- What role does our own self-judgement play in what Jesus is describing?
Saturday, August 13, 2016
Text to read: Matthew 7:1-6
- Who are the dogs and swine today that Jesus describes here?
Sunday, August 14, 2016
Text to read: Matthew 7:1-6
- Pray for those who are victims of their own judgement.
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