Except, friend, that is not even close to the whole story. And once you actually read through all six verses instead of just verse one, it gets a whole lot more interesting — and if I’m being honest, it steps on toes. Mine included, right out the gate.

What the Do Not Judge Others Bible Verse Actually Says

Matthew 7:1-2, NLT: “Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. For you will be treated as you treat others. The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged.”

Now, this is not Jesus telling us to turn our brains off and never use an ounce of discernment again. He’s talking about that reflex, that instant little verdict we hand somebody before they’ve said a single word to us. The stranger in the drive-thru who’s taking forever. The mugshot on the local news Facebook page with forty comments deep of strangers who’ve decided a man’s whole character off one bad photo. The yard sign that apparently tells you everything you need to know about a person’s soul.

We do this constantly, y’all. And most of the time we don’t even call it judging. We call it “just being observant.”

The Speck and the Log (And Why It’s Kind of Hilarious When You Picture It)

Verses 3 through 5, this is the part everybody half-remembers. Jesus paints this picture — somebody’s got an entire log sticking out of their own eye, and they’re over here squinting at their neighbor going “hang on now, I believe I see a little something in your eye, let me get that for you.” Can’t see straight himself. Offering eye surgery with a two-by-four hanging off his face.

It is ridiculous once you actually picture it out. And it’s exactly what it looks like every single time we point at somebody else’s mess while we’re ignoring the log parked in our own front yard.

Turns Out This Isn’t a One-Time Thing Jesus Said and Moved On From

Here’s what got me putting this episode together — this is not some one-off line Jesus dropped on a hillside one afternoon and never circled back to. This runs beginning to end through the whole Bible.

Go all the way back to 1 Samuel, God’s out here picking a king, and He stops the prophet Samuel dead in his tracks for judging a man by how he looks, telling him people look at the outside, but the Lord looks at the heart. Leviticus tells folks flat out, don’t play favorites, judge fair. John chapter 8, Jesus stops an entire crowd from stoning a woman with one single sentence. Paul tells the church at Rome that judging somebody else is really just condemning yourself, since you’re out here doing the same mess. And James — James does not sugarcoat a thing — basically asks, who exactly do you think you are, judging your neighbor?

So What Do We Actually Do With the Do Not Judge Others Bible Verse

Alright, this is my favorite part, because it’s no good if we just talk about it and go on with our day doing the exact same thing. A few things I’m actually trying to live out this week:

• Catch yourself. Most of this judging happens so fast you don’t even clock it. You’re not gonna stop having thoughts about people, we’re human. But you can catch yourself having ’em.
• Check your own mirror first. Before the criticism, before the eye roll, before you’re the one washing somebody’s face with contempt smeared all over your own — glance at your own log first.
• Trade the verdict for a prayer. This one’s the real game changer. You cannot hold genuine judgment and genuine prayer for the same person at the same time. Try it and watch how fast it softens you up. It’s almost annoying how well it works.

And that last one right there is exactly why my friend JoAnne’s ministry, Prayer Action Warriors, means so much to me. Every single day at noon, she’s got a whole community of people stopping to pray the Lord’s Prayer over people instead of forming opinions about them. It is such a simple thing on paper and it does real work.

Listen to Do not judge others Full Episode

We go a whole lot deeper than a blog post’s got room for — plus I tell y’all about a man from my hometown that taught me more about judging people than I ever wanted to learn. Give it a listen.

If you’re new around here, go back and catch the episode right before this one, I Need to Clean Out My Shed, where we talked about worry and trusting God with tomorrow — it sets up a good bit of what we get into today.

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What Jesus Says About Treasure

Matthew 6:19-21 tells us not to store up treasure here on earth, where it can rot, rust, or get stolen, and instead store it up in heaven, where none of that can touch it. Wherever your treasure is, that’s where your heart ends up too. Verse 24 takes it a step further saying: you cannot serve both God and money. It doesn’t say “it’s hard to serve both.” You cannot serve God and money.

I try to live by the 10-10-80 rule, tithe 10%, save 10%, live on the rest. I don’t hit it perfectly every month, but having that order, God first, matters more than the exact number.

What Jesus Says About Worry

Verses 25-34 talk about worry, and it flows straight out of the treasure conversation. God feeds the birds. He dresses the wildflowers better than Solomon ever looked. And you’re worth more to Him than either one. Verse 33 sums it up and it might be my favorite verse in this section. Seek the Kingdom first, and everything else falls into place. Not seek only. Seek first, HE doesn’t get the leftovers.

What I’m Actually Holding Onto

This one had me doing some real thinking about my own shed all week. A lot of why I can’t let go of stuff out there is worry, if I’m honest. What if I need it someday. What if I can’t replace it later. That’s exactly the kind of thinking Jesus is talking about here. So I’m doing it. I’m cleaning out that shed.

Listen to I Need to Clean Out My Shed Full Episode

I go a lot deeper into all of this on the podcast this week. Hit play below.

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What Jesus Says About Prayer

Matthew 6:5-8 tells us not to pray like the people who made a show out of it, praying loudly in public just to be seen, or babbling on thinking more words mean a better chance of being heard. Instead, go somewhere private, and don’t overthink the wording, because God already knows what you need before you even ask. Then Jesus gives us the actual model to follow, the Lord’s Prayer, right there in verses 9-13, short and simple, covering who God is, what we need, forgiveness, and protection, all in just a handful of lines.

What Jesus Says About Fasting

Verses 16-18 cover fasting the same way. Don’t walk around looking miserable to prove you’re doing it. Wash your face, comb your hair, go about your day looking completely normal, and let it stay between you and God. This applies just as much during seasons like Lent, when it’s natural to talk about what you’re giving up. There’s nothing wrong with sharing that for real accountability. The question is just whether you’re sharing it to stay honest, or hoping for a little admiration for how disciplined you are.

Join the Prayer Movement

My dear friend JoAnne started something called Prayer Action Warriors (PAW), and it’s beautifully simple. Every day at 12 noon, no matter where you are, you pause and pray the Lord’s Prayer. That’s the whole commitment. If you don’t have it memorized, you’ll find it right in Matthew 6:9-13, part of what we’re talking about in today’s episode.

JoAnne sends out a weekly email with encouragement and updates for anyone joining in. She’s not doing this for attention, she’s doing it because she genuinely believes there’s power in believers all over, scattered miles apart, praying that same prayer at the same moment. If you want to be part of it, set a reminder on your phone for noon and start praying along.

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I go a lot deeper into all of this on the podcast this week, including a whole tangent about a fasting ad I saw on reels. Hit play below.

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What Jesus Actually Says

Matthew 6:1-4 says don’t do your good deeds to be seen, don’t announce it like the hypocrites who basically blew trumpets to call attention to their giving. Instead, don’t even let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. Give it in private, and God, who sees everything, will reward you.

This isn’t new either. Job defended his own character back in Job 31 by pointing out he’d cared for widows and orphans for years, quietly, long before anyone questioned him about it. Proverbs says it too, over and over, that generosity toward the poor honors God. None of those verses mention anybody clapping for it.

It’s Not About the Amount

There’s a story in Mark 12 where Jesus watches people put money into the temple offering. Rich folks put in large sums. Then a poor widow drops in two small coins, worth almost nothing. And Jesus says she gave more than all of them, because they gave out of their leftovers and she gave everything she had.

That’s really the whole point. It’s not about how big the gift looks. It’s about how much of you is actually in it.

Giving in secret – The Real Question

I think this whole passage comes down to one thing: are you doing good because you love people and love God, or because you love how it feels when people think you’re a good person. Nobody watching can tell the difference. But you can. And so can God.

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I go a lot deeper into this on the podcast this week, plus a story about my own struggle with this exact thing. Hit play below.

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What Jesus Actually Says

Matthew 5:43-44 says the law told people to love their neighbor and hate their enemy, except that second part was never actually in God’s law. Somebody added it in over time. Jesus flips it: love your enemies, pray for the people against you. He points out that God sends sun and rain on everybody, good and bad alike, and that loving people who already love you back isn’t exactly impressive. Even people nobody respected back then could manage that much.

Grace We’ve Already Been Given

I think about how many times I’ve messed up and asked God for forgiveness, and He’s given it every single time. No exceptions. People sitting in prison right now can still receive that same grace if they ask. God doesn’t ration it based on how bad the offense was.

Scripture also tells us Lucifer was once one of the most beautiful angels God made, before pride led him to rebel and become Satan, God’s actual enemy. And God’s still not up there scheming revenge on him. He’s just secure in who He is. That’s really what loving your enemy comes from, not ignoring what happened, just being secure enough that you don’t need revenge to feel whole.

loving people who hurt you What This Actually Looks Like

Praying for somebody who hurt you can start small. Just saying their name to God and asking Him to work on whatever’s going on in them, even if you don’t feel a thing while you’re doing it. For something heavier, somebody who stole from you, cheated, or hurt you badly, loving them doesn’t mean letting them back in or pretending it wasn’t as bad as it was. It can mean praying they get help, from a safe distance.

What I’ve noticed is this does more for me than it does for her. Every time I pray instead of stew, I feel lighter. That’s not weakness. That’s actually being free of her.

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Most of us have used “an eye for an eye” as our excuse for that. Somebody hurts a friend of mine and I’m the first one saying “well, eye for an eye, go get her.” I said that for years without knowing what I was actually quoting.

Where “an eye for an eye” actually came from

That verse is old. Way older than Jesus. It goes back to the law of Moses, and it wasn’t written so people could get revenge — it was written to stop revenge from spinning out of control. Before that law, somebody could knock your tooth out and you’d burn their whole house down over it. No limit, no fairness, just escalation.

“An eye for an eye” put a limit on that. The punishment had to match the crime, nothing bigger. And it was written for judges — courts deciding real cases. Not for you and me to pull out on each other whenever we’re mad.

Read through Matthew 5:38-42 and what Jesus says. Pick your favorite version. NLT and Message are my two favorites.

Getting even never feels good here’s what to do instead

Jesus doesn’t soften the rule. He goes the other way completely. Don’t retaliate, He says. Give more than what was asked. Walk the extra mile. And my gut reaction to that is no thank you, because hitting back feels like standing up for yourself, and not hitting back feels like getting walked on.

But look at who’s actually in control in those examples He gives. It’s not the person throwing the punch — it’s the one who refuses to swing back. Revenge hands your next move over to somebody else’s bad behavior. Not to get someone back is the one thing that keeps that decision yours.

And He doesn’t even stop there. He says do good to the person who wronged you. On purpose. That’s a harder ask than staying quiet ever was.

Listen to the Full Episode

There’s a lot more to unpack on the podcast this week — the full story on “an eye for an eye,” what “turn the other cheek” meant in that culture, and why doing good to someone who hurt you says more about you than them. Give it a listen below.

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If this one really hit home for you, go back and listen to last week’s episode, Keeping Your Word When It’s Hard (Matthew 5:33-37) — it sets up a lot of what we talked about today.

And if you need a five-ingredient supper for the week you’re working through all this, my Crockpot Chicken and Potatoes is a true dump-and-go favorite around here — one less thing to think about while your heart’s doing the heavy lifting.

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If you’ve got a busy week ahead, this one’s for you. It’s a true dump-and-go supper — five ingredients, one liner, zero babysitting the stove. Toss everything in the crockpot in the morning, and by suppertime you’ve got tender chicken thighs, soft little potatoes, and green beans soaked up in the most savory onion broth.

Why You’ll Love This Crockpot Chicken and Potatoes Recipe

• Five ingredients, one pot. No fancy shopping list, just pantry staples and a bag of chicken thighs.
• Truly hands-off. Dump it, set it, forget it for 6-8 hours.
• Easy cleanup. I always cook mine in a Reynolds slow cooker liner (this is my affiliate link — grab them here: REYNOLDS LINER), so there’s no scrubbing a crock afterward. Just lift the liner out and toss it.
• Family-approved. Sam asked for this again the very same week, and that almost never happens around here.

What You’ll Need

• 4 boneless or bone-in chicken thighs (use whatever you have — chicken breasts work too)
• 1 to 2 cups baby/mini potatoes
• 1 can green beans, drained
• 1 packet Lipton onion soup mix
• 1 cup chicken broth
• A Reynolds slow cooker liner (optional, but it makes cleanup a breeze — REYNOLDS LINER)

That’s it, sweet friend. No chopping, no browning, no extra seasoning required — the onion soup mix does all the heavy lifting.

How to Make Crockpot Chicken and Potatoes with Green Beans

1. Line your crockpot with a Reynolds slow cooker liner for easy cleanup.
2. Add the chicken thighs to the bottom of the crock.
3. Scatter the baby potatoes and drained green beans around and over the chicken.
4. Sprinkle the packet of Lipton onion soup mix evenly over everything.
5. Pour in the chicken broth.
6. Cover and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours, until the chicken is fork-tender and the potatoes are soft.
7. Give everything a gentle stir before serving so the savory onion broth coats the chicken, potatoes, and green beans.

Tips for the Best Dump-and-Go Supper

Don’t skip draining the green beans, since the extra liquid can water down the broth. If you’d rather have a thicker sauce than a light broth, stir in a cornstarch slurry (1 tablespoon cornstarch whisked with 2 tablespoons cold water) during the last 20-30 minutes on high. Chicken breasts will work in a pinch, but thighs stay juicier over a long cook time. And this recipe scales up real easy — just add more chicken, potatoes, and a second can of green beans if you’re feeding a crowd.

More Cozy Crockpot Suppers You’ll Love

If this one’s a hit at your table, you’ll want to try my Crock Pot Pork Chops with Creamy Onion Gravy next, or my Homemade BBQ Sauce Recipe (Easy Crock Pot Chicken) for another dump-and-go favorite. And if crazy weeks are your normal too, my post on meal prepping for busy women is full of ideas to make suppers like this one even easier.

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Crockpot Chicken, Potatoes, and Green Beans

A 5-ingredient dump-and-go crockpot supper — tender chicken thighs, baby potatoes, and green beans in a savory onion broth. So easy, my husband asked for it again the very same week.

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Keyword chicken thighs, crockpot chicken, easy supper, easy weeknight meal, family friendly supper, no measure recipe, slow cooker recipes

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Total Time 5 minutes minutes

Servings 4 People

Calories 270kcal

Equipment

• Crock Pot

Ingredients

• 4 chicken thighs (or any cut of your choice)
• 1 to 2 cups baby/mini potatoes
• 1 can green beans drained
• 1 packet Lipton onion soup mix
• 1 cup chicken broth
• 1 Reynolds slow cooker liner optional, for easy cleanup

Instructions

• Line your crockpot with a Reynolds slow cooker liner.
• Add the chicken thighs to the bottom of the crock.
• Scatter the baby potatoes and drained green beans over the chicken.
• Sprinkle the packet of Lipton onion soup mix evenly over everything.
• Pour in the chicken broth.
• Cover and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours, until the chicken is fork-tender and potatoes are soft.
• Stir gently before serving so the savory onion broth coats everything.

Notes

Drain the green beans well or the broth will be watery.

For a thicker sauce instead of a light broth, whisk 1 tbsp cornstarch with 2 tbsp cold water and stir in during the last 20-30 minutes on high.

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We’re still working our way through the Sermon on the Mount, and Jesus is talking about something that sounds small at first — swearing oaths — but it’s really about whether people can trust what comes out of our mouth at all.

What Does It Mean to Keep Your Word?

Back in Jesus’ day, folks had this whole system for making a promise sound more serious. You’d swear by heaven, by earth, or by your own head, and some of those counted more than others. There was basically a ranking for how much you were allowed to lie to somebody, depending on which words you used to say it.

Jesus looked at that whole mess and said, real simple — just say yes or no, and mean it. Don’t swear on anything. Your plain word ought to be enough all by itself.

And we do our own version of that today, don’t we. “I promise” doesn’t really mean much anymore. “I swear” sounds a little more serious or “I swear on my life” is supposed to be the one you really can’t break. And underneath all of it is something most of us don’t want to say out loud — that we don’t quite trust our own plain word to be believed, so we keep dressing it up bigger and bigger.

About That Divorce Verse

Before Jesus gets to the oath part, this verse opens with something else — divorce, and the certificates men could hand their wives with almost no reason back then. I know that can be a hard one to hear, especially if divorce is part of your own story. It’s part of mine too.

What matters is what’s underneath both parts of the verses. People were following the rules on paper and missing the whole point. A certificate was legal. An oath sounded serious. Neither one meant a person’s word was actually good.

That’s really the question Jesus is asking here. Not “did you technically keep the rule,” but “is your word something people can actually stand on?”

Think about the small stuff. “I’ll call you back.” “I’ll be there by six.” The promise you made in the middle of an argument that you meant with your whole heart in that moment. Every one of those is a chance to either build a little trust or spend a little trust, and most of us are spending more than we realize.

A Few Places to Start

You don’t need some big gesture to fix this. Just a few small things: say less before you say yes, especially when part of you already knows you can’t follow through. Notice when you’re reaching for a bigger promise — “I swear,” “I really mean it this time” — and ask yourself why the plain version didn’t feel like enough on its own. And when you do say yes, even to something small, treat it like it matters.

That’s really the whole thing. Say what you mean. Mean what you say. Let that be enough.

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This post only covers part of it — the full episode gets into where the oath system in Jesus’ day actually came from, and what it costs to live like your yes just means yes in a marriage, a friendship, or at work. Press play below and let’s talk about it like we’re sitting on the porch.

If you want to read the full passage, Matthew 5:31-37, the Message version and NLT.

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We’re still working our way through the Sermon on the Mount over here, and this week we’re on Matthew 5:27-28, where Jesus takes a commandment nobody in the room was worried about — don’t commit adultery — and quietly moves the goalposts to somewhere a lot closer to home. He says looking at somebody with lust is already adultery in the heart. Not “will be.” Already is.

What Does It Mean to Guard Your Heart?

Here’s the short version: the sin was never really about the bed. That was just where it eventually showed up, if it got the chance to. The actual thing started way back in a look — a thought you let stay parked a little too long.

That’s not a new idea, either. Job said it first, way back in one of the oldest books in the Bible: “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look with lust” (Job 31:1). Jesus wasn’t inventing a rule. He was just finally saying out loud what everybody already knew and nobody wanted to talk about.

And before you brace for a guilt trip — that’s not what this is. This isn’t about a report card. It’s about being honest with yourself about what you’re letting shape you when nobody’s watching.

Building Real Guardrails, Not Just Willpower

I love the word guardrail for this, because a guardrail on the highway isn’t there to ruin your drive. It’s there so you can stay on the road without ever getting close enough to the edge to find out what happens.

Your mind needs the same thing, and “try harder” was never a guardrail — it’s just a wish. A real guardrail is specific. It’s naming the actual thing that pulls at you and deciding, ahead of time, what you’re going to do about it, instead of hoping willpower shows up right when you need it most.

That’s exactly what I built the free printable for this week. It walks you through naming what’s actually pulling your attention off the road and putting an honest, specific guardrail in place for each one. You can grab it over on the ko-fi page — free and no strings, just something to actually work through instead of just nodding along to a podcast.

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This post barely scratches the surface — we cover a lot more ground in the actual episode, including what Jesus meant by “gouge it out and throw it away” (it’s not what you think), and the difference between conviction and shame. Press play below and let’s talk about it like we’re sitting on the porch.

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What Does the Bible Say About Anger? More Than “Don’t Blow Up”

We’ve all got one. A little mental list of “at least I never.” At least I never cheated or at least I never said it to their face. At least I just unfollowed ’em instead of going off in the comments. We feel pretty good standing behind that list.

Jesus walks right up to it in Matthew 5:21-22 and kicks the whole thing over.

He tells the crowd that the anger they’ve been carrying — the grudge kept warm because it feels justified, the contempt that quietly decides somebody doesn’t matter — is a whole lot closer to real trouble than any of us want to admit. Now, I want to be clear, every flash of anger isn’t a sin issue. Jesus got angry too, He flipped tables over it. But there’s a difference between feeling something and feeding it.

What the Bible Says About Anger Nobody Talks About

Here’s the part that got me. It’s usually not loud. But it’s the read receipt you saw and didn’t answer on purpose. It’s the family group chat where everybody knows exactly who the message is really about, even though nobody said a name. It’s smiling at somebody at the ballgame and going straight to the car to tell your spouse what you really think.

We don’t always call that anger. Sometimes we call it being done with somebody. Sometimes we call it a boundary. And sometimes it actually is one. But sometimes it’s just contempt wearing a nicer outfit, and that’s exactly what Jesus is calling out in this passage.

So what do we actually do about it?

This is where it gets real practical. In verses 23-24, Jesus paints this picture of somebody standing at the altar, offering already in hand, and they suddenly remember somebody’s got something against them. And His instruction is — leave it. Leave the offering sitting right there. Go make it right. Then come back.

That’s not a small ask. That’s Jesus telling us our relationship with God and our relationships with people aren’t two separate lanes. They’re tied together, whether we like it or not. And notice what He doesn’t say — He doesn’t say “if it’s your fault.” He just says go. Not because you’re the guilty one. Because you’re the one who knows, and you’re the one who can do something about it.

This isn’t a “back then” verse

This isn’t a “those people” verse, and it’s not just a “back then” verse either. This is a right-now, sitting-in-traffic, scrolling-on-your-phone kind of verse. I get a lot more honest about it than I probably should in this week’s episode of Unscripted Conversations — go give it a listen if you haven’t yet.

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If somebody’s name came to mind while you were reading this, I don’t think that’s an accident. I made you something for it.

This printable will walk you straight through it — who you need to reach out to, what’s been holding you back, and even some starter sentences for when you don’t know what to say. It’s free, it’s yours, and it might be exactly the nudge you need to actually do something instead of just thinking about it for five minutes and moving on.

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