Sermon Tone Analysis
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7:1-6 Passing An Adverse Verdict
The verb is used not only generally of passing a verdict, but specifically of passing an adverse verdict, condemning, and it is this that Jesus is forbidding.
The present imperative gives the sense “Don’t make a practice of judging.”
The habit is easy to form.
But it is to be avoided, and Jesus points to the disastrous consequences that follow
Leon Morris, The Gospel according to Matthew, The Pillar New Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI; Leicester, England: W.B. Eerdmans; Inter-Varsity Press, 1992), 165.
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