“Matthew 7:1-2 Do not judge, or you too will be judged. “?
We are all to be judged in the end; seems many use the passage you quoted as excuse for the very worst of behavior.
Yes, it’s about hypocrisy. If you take a position, people will be watching to see if you live up to your position yourself. How you judge people by what they do is how you’ll be judged if you aren’t living to your own standards.
People seem to stop there. We are to judge fellow Christians.
Matthew 7:1 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
You need to use the verse correctly. There are times that your brother will have a speck in his eye that he needs help to be rid of; yet you have to be clear eyed enough and free of blame to be able to do so!(verse 5). If he has such a speck and we don’t act to help him or dissuade him of the folly he is in then we can be guilty of the blood of our brother.
Yes we can discern/”judge” but we must be knowledgeable about our own shortcomings when we do so, lest we with the same measure, are judged!
Context makes the dream work!