Matthew 7:2
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
It is always necessary to ask, "By what standard?" because your standard is your God. Whatever you measure yourself by is your Gospel. However you determine progress from regress is your goal. It provides your categories of falling short and the abundant life. Whatever court you appeal to for justification and apply toward accusing others is your religion. Everyone has a standard. If they insist on having no standards, that is their standard and they demonstrate their allegiance to it in their persecution of all standards that come against it. But no one can stand under their own standard. No one can raise a banner for their beliefs and faithfully walk underneath. No one can keep their own convictions. We are inconsistent and condemned by our own mouths.
Romans 2:1
Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
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