Jesus' warning against hypocritical judgment belongs inside a biblical world that both demands just judgment and condemns partial, malicious, or self-exempting judgment. The passage cannot mean that all moral discernment is forbidden, especially because 7:6 and 7:15-20 immediately require discernment.

Jesus' warning against hypocritical judgment belongs inside a biblical world that both demands just judgment and condemns partial, malicious, or self-exempting judgment. The passage cannot mean that all moral discernment is forbidden, especially because 7:6 and 7:15-20 immediately require discernment.

Wisdom traditions about futile correction of scoffers resemble the warning not to cast holy things before dogs/pigs, though no exact quotation is signaled.

Wisdom traditions about futile correction of scoffers resemble the warning not to cast holy things before dogs/pigs, though no exact quotation is signaled.

Jesus warns against presumptuous judgment; James warns slanderers not to usurp the place of the one Lawgiver and Judge.

Mark 4:24 and Matthew 7:2 preserve the same “measure” saying: the measure a person uses becomes the measure returned, while each Gospel applies the saying within its own teaching context.