Luke 6:37 (YLT)

Passage

`And judge not, and ye may not be judged; condemn not, and ye may not be condemned; release, and ye shall be released.

Nearby Context

Luke 6:35 `But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

Luke 6:36 be ye therefore merciful, as also your Father is merciful.

Luke 6:37 `And judge not, and ye may not be judged; condemn not, and ye may not be condemned; release, and ye shall be released.

Luke 6:38 `Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'

Luke 6:39 And he spake a simile to them, `Is blind able to lead blind? shall they not both fall into a pit?

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "condemn", "judge", "judged", "condemned", "release", "shall", and "released". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "condemn" and "judge", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 36's "be ye therefore merciful as also your..." into verse 38's "Give and it shall be given to...", so "condemn" and "judge" belong inside that flow. In Luke context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "condemn" and "judge" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.