Criticism
Matthew 7:1-5 ESV / 4,101 helpful votes
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take...
Criticism
Matthew 7:1-5 ESV / 4,101 helpful votes
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
James 4:11-12 ESV / 3,821 helpful votes
Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 3,683 helpful votes
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
James 1:19-20 ESV / 3,566 helpful votes
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
Galatians 6:1 ESV / 3,241 helpful votes
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3,147 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Romans 14:4 ESV / 3,052 helpful votes
Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
Proverbs 15:31 ESV / 2,778 helpful votes
The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.
Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 2,702 helpful votes
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 2,524 helpful votes
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 2,469 helpful votes
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
2 Timothy 2:24-25 ESV / 2,447 helpful votes
And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,
Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 2,389 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
Proverbs 9:8 ESV / 2,302 helpful votes
Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
Galatians 5:15 ESV / 2,193 helpful votes
But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 2,172 helpful votes
A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.
Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 2,090 helpful votes
The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
Proverbs 27:5-6 ESV / 2,065 helpful votes
Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
Proverbs 13:18 ESV / 2,063 helpful votes
Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is honored.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 2,057 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
Romans 12:19 ESV / 2,021 helpful votes
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
Acts 7:51 ESV / 1,948 helpful votes
“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 1,934 helpful votes
For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 7:2 ESV / 1,917 helpful votes
For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 1,872 helpful votes
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Ecclesiastes 5:2 ESV / 1,867 helpful votes
Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:2-3 ESV / 1,847 helpful votes
Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few. For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.
Job 38:2-3 ESV / 1,831 helpful votes
“Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 1,787 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Romans 14:10 ESV / 1,783 helpful votes
Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;
Colossians 3:12-14 ESV / 1,759 helpful votes
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Matthew 7:12 ESV / 1,740 helpful votes
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Revelation 3:15-16 ESV / 1,733 helpful votes
“‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 1,727 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
James 2:13 ESV / 1,699 helpful votes
For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 1,686 helpful votes
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
Mark 16:1-20 ESV / 1,658 helpful votes
When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?” And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back—it was very large. And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed. ...
John 8:7 ESV / 1,616 helpful votes
And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 1,614 helpful votes
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Romans 2:1 ESV / 1,595 helpful votes
Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 1,582 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
Romans 14:13 ESV / 1,561 helpful votes
Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
Proverbs 15:32 ESV / 1,560 helpful votes
Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.
Proverbs 15:1-2 ESV / 1,549 helpful votes
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
Proverbs 12:18 ESV / 1,538 helpful votes
There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 1,537 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...
Luke 6:37-38 ESV / 1,524 helpful votes
“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
Matthew 7:13-14 ESV / 1,514 helpful votes
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Proverbs 9:8-9 ESV / 1,506 helpful votes
Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 1,495 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Matthew 18:15 ESV / 1,495 helpful votes
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
Matthew 7:1 ESV / 1,495 helpful votes
“Judge not, that you be not judged.
Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 1,478 helpful votes
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 1,466 helpful votes
Let all that you do be done in love.
2 Kings 2:23-24 ESV / 1,462 helpful votes
He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.
Amos 3:3 ESV / 1,428 helpful votes
“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?
Romans 8:1 ESV / 1,427 helpful votes
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 1,411 helpful votes
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 1,394 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
2 Corinthians 10:10 ESV / 1,390 helpful votes
For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.”
James 5:16 ESV / 1,381 helpful votes
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Romans 2:1-4 ESV / 1,365 helpful votes
Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
1 Peter 2:23 ESV / 1,348 helpful votes
When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.
3 John 1:9-10 ESV / 1,317 helpful votes
I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority. So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church.
Proverbs 27:9 ESV / 1,264 helpful votes
Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.
Proverbs 22:24-25 ESV / 1,263 helpful votes
Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 1,207 helpful votes
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 1,194 helpful votes
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.
Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 1,131 helpful votes
A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
Matthew 23:24 ESV / 1,046 helpful votes
You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!
Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 1,043 helpful votes
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 928 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...
James 5:9 ESV / 896 helpful votes
Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.
Proverbs 22:10 ESV / 885 helpful votes
Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.
Luke 17:3 ESV / 876 helpful votes
Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him,
Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 860 helpful votes
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 820 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Proverbs 15:31-32 ESV / 819 helpful votes
The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise. Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 818 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 3:16 ESV / 807 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 7:24 ESV / 806 helpful votes
Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”
1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 802 helpful votes
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
1 John 1:9 ESV / 794 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Romans 8:31 ESV / 761 helpful votes
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 760 helpful votes
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 755 helpful votes
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
Colossians 3:13 ESV / 708 helpful votes
Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Exodus 22:18 ESV / 706 helpful votes
“You shall not permit a sorceress to live.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 681 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Proverbs 14:1-35 ESV / 667 helpful votes
The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down. Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord, but he who is devious in his ways despises him. By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them. Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox. A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies. ...
Romans 12:3 ESV / 663 helpful votes
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
Proverbs 15:31-33 ESV / 653 helpful votes
The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise. Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence. The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 635 helpful votes
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Philippians 2:1-11 ESV / 627 helpful votes
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ...
Matthew 7:3-5 ESV / 613 helpful votes
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
Proverbs 29:1 ESV / 567 helpful votes
He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.
Matthew 10:8 ESV / 538 helpful votes
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 522 helpful votes
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Proverbs 12:1 ESV / 494 helpful votes
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 418 helpful votes
Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
