[Jesus taught the Jews these things about judging:] "Do not imagine that I shall be your accuser at God's tribunal. Your accuser is Moses, the very Moses on whom you have set your hope. If you believed Moses you would believe what I tell you, for it was about Me that he wrote. But if you do not believe what he wrote, how are you to believe what I say?
   "Pass no judgment, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; acquit, and you will be acquitted; give, and gifts will be given you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be poured into your lap; for whatever measure you deal out to others will be dealt to you in return. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."
   [Jesus also said:] "You judge by worldly standards. I pass judgment on no man, but if I do judge, my judgment is valid because it is not I alone Who judge, but I and He Who sent Me. In your own law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is valid. Here am I, a witness in My own cause, and My other witness is the Father Who sent Me."
   It was not to judge the world that God sent His Son into the world, but that through Him the world might be saved. The man who puts his faith in Him does not come under judgment; but the unbeliever has already been judged in that he has not given his allegiance to God's only Son.
   [John the Baptist explained the difference between Jesus Christ and all other men.] "He Who comes from above is above all others; he who is from the earth belongs to the earth and uses earthly speech. He Who comes from heaven bears witness to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His witness. To accept His witness is to attest that God speaks true; for He Whom God sent utters the words of God, so measureless is God's gift of the Spirit.
   "The Father loves the Son and has entrusted Him with all authority. He who puts his faith in the Son has hold of eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see that life; God's wrath rests upon him."

Taken from Jn. 5, Lk. 6, Mt. 5, 6, Jn. 8, 3, The New English Bible and
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