John 7:24
New International Version
Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.”

New Living Translation
Look beneath the surface so you can judge correctly.”

English Standard Version
Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”

Berean Standard Bible
Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.”

Berean Literal Bible
Do not judge according to appearance, but judge the righteous judgment."

King James Bible
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

New King James Version
Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”

New American Standard Bible
Do not judge by the outward appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”

NASB 1995
“Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”

NASB 1977
“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.”

Amplified Bible
Do not judge by appearance [superficially and arrogantly], but judge fairly and righteously.”

Christian Standard Bible
Stop judging according to outward appearances; rather judge according to righteous judgment.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Stop judging according to outward appearances; rather judge according to righteous judgment.”

American Standard Version
Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“Do not judge with partiality, but judge just judgment.”

Contemporary English Version
Don't judge by appearances. Judge by what is right.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge just judgment.

English Revised Version
Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Stop judging by outward appearance! Instead, judge correctly."

Good News Translation
Stop judging by external standards, and judge by true standards."

International Standard Version
Stop judging by appearances, but judge with righteous judgment!"

Literal Standard Version
Do not judge according to appearance, but the righteous judgment judge.”

Majority Standard Bible
Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.”

New American Bible
Stop judging by appearances, but judge justly.”

NET Bible
Do not judge according to external appearance, but judge with proper judgment."

New Revised Standard Version
Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”

New Heart English Bible
Do not judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

Webster's Bible Translation
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

Weymouth New Testament
Do not form superficial judgements, but form the judgements that are just."

World English Bible
Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

Young's Literal Translation
judge not according to appearance, but the righteous judgment judge.'

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Context
Jesus Teaches at the Feast
23If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath? 24Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.” 25Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?…

Cross References
Leviticus 19:15
You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

Deuteronomy 1:16
At that time I charged your judges: "Hear the disputes between your brothers, and judge fairly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.

Isaiah 11:3
And He will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what His eyes see, and He will not decide by what His ears hear,

Zechariah 7:9
"This is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.

John 7:25
Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, "Isn't this the man they are trying to kill?

John 8:15
You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.

2 Corinthians 10:7
You are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should remind himself that we belong to Christ just as much as he does.


Treasury of Scripture

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

John 8:15
Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.

Deuteronomy 1:16,17
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him…

Deuteronomy 16:18,19
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment…

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John 7
1. Jesus reproves the ambition and boldness of his kinsmen;
10. goes up from Galilee to the feast of tabernacles;
14. teaches in the temple.
40. Various opinions of him among the people.
45. The Pharisees are angry that their officers took him not,
50. and chide with Nicodemus for taking his side.














(24) Judge not according to the appearance.--He has put the case before them in its true light, I and from their own point of view. There was another Positive Precept of Moses which these judges were forgetting, though it, too, formed part of the first section of the Law read at Tabernacles (Deuteronomy 1:16-17). (Comp. Note on John 7:19.) Let them who profess to judge Him by the Law obey it, and form a just and honest opinion, and not be biased by the appearance of a mere technicality. Even if His work did fall under the condemnation of what they held to be the letter of the Mosaic law (comp. Note on John 5:10), they knew perfectly well--and their own practice as to circumcision proved this--that it did so in appearance only.

Verse 24. - Judge not according to appearance ? the superficial aspect of things, the merely formal side, the unexplained letter of the Law. Οψις id quod sub visum cadit res in conspicuo posita. According to that, the healing and the bed carrying consequent upon it would be a positive infraction of a certain enactment. But judge righteous judgment. Consider the case, and see that I have done, in this act of healing, less than you are doing yourselves, notwithstanding all your punctilio, and with a higher justification. The aorist κρίνατε involves probably "the one true and complete decision which the case admits" (Westcott).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Stop
μὴ (mē)
Adverb
Strong's 3361: Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether.

judging
κρίνετε (krinete)
Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 2919: Properly, to distinguish, i.e. Decide; by implication, to try, condemn, punish.

by
κατ’ (kat’)
Preposition
Strong's 2596: A primary particle; down, in varied relations (genitive, dative or accusative) with which it is joined).

outward appearances,
ὄψιν (opsin)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3799: From optanomai; properly, sight, i.e. the visage, an external show.

[and start]
ἀλλὰ (alla)
Conjunction
Strong's 235: But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise.

judging
κρίνετε (krinete)
Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 2919: Properly, to distinguish, i.e. Decide; by implication, to try, condemn, punish.

justly.”
δικαίαν (dikaian)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1342: From dike; equitable; by implication, innocent, holy.


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