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Complete Jewish Bible

John 7:24

Stop judging by surface appearances, and judge the right way!"

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Charitableness;   Commandments;   Jesus, the Christ;   Judge;   Justice;   Sabbath;   Temple;   Uncharitableness;   Scofield Reference Index - Faith;   Thompson Chain Reference - Appearances;   Outward Appearance;   The Topic Concordance - Judgment;   Sabbath;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John, gospel of;   Judgment;   Righteousness;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Justice;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Candlestick;   David;   Feasts;   Tabernacles, Feast of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Judging;   Scribes;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Dispersion ;   Education (2);   Error;   Judging (by Men);   Quotations (2);   Sabbath ;   Worldliness (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Tabernacles feast of;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Appearance;   Jesus Christ (Part 2 of 2);  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for July 15;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Stop judging
King James Version (1611)
Iudge not according to the appearance, but iudge righteous iudgement.
King James Version
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
English Standard Version
Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment."
New American Standard Bible
"Do not judge by the outward appearance, but judge with righteous judgment."
New Century Version
Stop judging by the way things look, but judge by what is really right."
Amplified Bible
"Do not judge by appearance [superficially and arrogantly], but judge fairly and righteously."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment."
Legacy Standard Bible
Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment."
Berean Standard Bible
Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly."
Contemporary English Version
Don't judge by appearances. Judge by what is right.
Darby Translation
Judge not according to sight, but judge righteous judgment.
Easy-to-Read Version
Stop judging by the way things look. Be fair and judge by what is really right."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Iudge not according to the appearance, but iudge righteous iudgement.
George Lamsa Translation
Do not judge by partiality, but judge a just judgment.
Good News Translation
Stop judging by external standards, and judge by true standards."
Lexham English Bible
Do not judge according to outward appearance, but judge according to righteous judgment!"
Literal Translation
Do not judge according to sight, but judge righteous judgment.
American Standard Version
Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
Bible in Basic English
Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.
Hebrew Names Version
Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
International Standard Version
Stop judging by appearances, but judge with righteous judgment!"Deuteronomy 1:16-17; Proverbs 24:23; John 8:15; James 2:1;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
Judge not with acceptance of persons, [fn] but righteous judgment judge you.
Murdock Translation
Judge not, with a respect for persons; but judge ye a righteous judgment.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iudge not after the [vtter] appearaunce, but iudge with a ryghteous iudgement.
English Revised Version
Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
World English Bible
Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
Weymouth's New Testament
Do not form superficial judgements, but form the judgements that are just."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Nile ye deme aftir the face, but deme ye a riytful doom.
Update Bible Version
Do not judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
Webster's Bible Translation
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
New English Translation
Do not judge according to external appearance, but judge with proper judgment."
New King James Version
Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment."
New Living Translation
Look beneath the surface so you can judge correctly."
New Life Bible
Do not say a person is guilty by what you see. Be sure you know when you say what is right or wrong."
New Revised Standard
Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Be not judging according to appearance, but, just judgment, be judging,
Douay-Rheims Bible
Judge not according to the appearance: but judge just judgment.
Revised Standard Version
Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Iudge not after the vtter aperaunce: but iudge rightewes iudgement.
Young's Literal Translation
judge not according to appearance, but the righteous judgment judge.'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iudge not after the vtter appearauce, but iudge righteous iudgment.
Mace New Testament (1729)
judge not according to appearances, but judge according to equity.
Simplified Cowboy Version
If you're going to judge correctly, you've got to do it with more than what you see on the surface."

Contextual Overview

14 Not until the festival was half over did Yeshua go up to the Temple courts and begin to teach. 15 The Judeans were surprised: "How does this man know so much without having studied?" they asked. 16 So Yeshua gave them an answer: "My teaching is not my own, it comes from the One who sent me. 17 If anyone wants to do his will, he will know whether my teaching is from God or I speak on my own. 18 A person who speaks on his own is trying to win praise for himself; but a person who tries to win praise for the one who sent him is honest, there is nothing false about him. 19 Didn't Moshe give you the Torah? Yet not one of you obeys the Torah! Why are you out to kill me?" 20 "You have a demon!" the crowd answered. "Who's out to kill you?" 21 Yeshua answered them, "I did one thing; and because of this, all of you are amazed. 22 Moshe gave you b'rit-milah — not that it came from Moshe but from the Patriarchs — and you do a boy's b'rit-milah on Shabbat. 23 If a boy is circumcised on Shabbat so that the Torah of Moshe will not be broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man's whole body well on Shabbat?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

John 8:15, Deuteronomy 1:16, Deuteronomy 1:17, Deuteronomy 16:18, Deuteronomy 16:19, Psalms 58:1, Psalms 58:2, Psalms 82:2, Psalms 94:20, Psalms 94:21, Proverbs 17:15, Proverbs 24:23, Isaiah 5:23, Isaiah 11:3, Isaiah 11:4, James 2:1, James 2:4, James 2:9

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 13:14 - General 1 Samuel 16:7 - looketh Job 34:4 - know Proverbs 31:9 - General Acts 4:19 - judge Acts 28:4 - No doubt 1 Corinthians 4:3 - it is 1 Corinthians 11:13 - General 2 Corinthians 10:7 - ye look

Cross-References

Genesis 7:3
also of the birds in the air take seven couples — in order to preserve their species throughout the earth.
Genesis 7:4
For in seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; I will wipe out every living thing that I have made from the face of the earth."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Judge not according to the appearance,.... Or through respect of persons, and so as to please men, the Scribes and Pharisees; who had condemned the action of Christ, in curing the diseased man on the sabbath day, and sought to kill him for it:

but judge righteous judgment; give your sense and judgment of things, according to the truth and evidence of them; and do not find fault with that, which you yourselves allow of, and which Moses and his law, and your own practices, justify.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Judge not according to the appearance - Not as a thing first offers itself to you, without reflection or candor. In appearance, to circumcise a child on the Sabbath might be a violation of the law; yet you do it, and it is right. So, to appearance, it might be a violation of the Sabbath to heal a man, yet it is right to do works of necessity and mercy.

Judge righteous judgment - Candidly; looking at the law, and inquiring what its spirit really requires.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 24. Judge not according to the appearance — Attend to the law, not merely in the letter, but in its spirit and design. Learn that the law which commands men to rest on the Sabbath day is subordinate to the law of mercy and love, which requires them to be ever active to promote God's glory in the comfort and salvation of their fellow creatures; and endeavour to judge of the merit or demerit of an action, not from the first impression it may make upon your prejudices but from its tendency, and the motives of the person, as far as it is possible for you to acquaint yourselves with them; still believing the best, where you have no certain proof to the contrary.


 
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