John 7:24

New Century Version

Stop judging by the way things look, but judge by what is really right."

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."

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.

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

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 When the feast was about half over, Jesus went to the Temple and began to teach. ¹⁵ The people were amazed and said, "This man has never studied in school. How did he learn so much?" ¹⁶ Jesus answered, "The things I teach are not my own, but they come from him who sent me. ¹⁷ If people choose to do what God wants, they will know that my teaching comes from God and not from me. ¹⁸ Those who teach their own ideas are trying to get honor for themselves. But those who try to bring honor to the one who sent them speak the truth, and there is nothing false in them. ¹⁹ Moses gave you the law, but none of you obeys that law. Why are you trying to kill me?" ²⁰ The people answered, "A demon has come into you. We are not trying to kill you." ²¹ Jesus said to them, "I did one miracle, and you are all amazed. ²² Moses gave you the law about circumcision. (But really Moses did not give you circumcision; it came from our ancestors.) And yet you circumcise a baby boy on a Sabbath day. ²³ If a baby boy can be circumcised on a Sabbath day to obey the law of Moses, why are you angry at me for healing a person's whole body on the Sabbath day?

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
Take seven pairs of all the birds of the sky, each male with its female. This will allow all these animals to continue living on the earth after the flood.

Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe off from the earth every living thing that I have made."

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.