30 »It is not for my sake,« said Jesus, »that that voice came, but for your sakes.
31 Now is a judgement of this world: now will the Prince of this world be driven out.
32 And I – if I am lifted up from the earth– will draw all men to me.«
5 Therefore form no premature judgements, but wait until the Lord returns. He will both bring to light the secrets of darkness and will openly disclose the motives that have been in people's hearts; and then the praise which each man deserves will come to him from God.
21 For just as the Father awakens the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to whom He wills.
22 The Father indeed does not judge any one, but He has entrusted all judgement to the Son,
23 that all may honour the Son even as they honour the Father. The man who withholds honour from the Son withholds honour from the Father who sent Him.
24 »In most solemn truth I tell you that he who listens to my teaching and believes Him who sent me, has the Life of the Ages, and does not come under judgement, but has passed over out of death into Life.«
25 »In most solemn truth I tell you that a time is coming –nay, has already come– when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.«
26 For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has also given to the Son to have life in Himself.
27 And He has conferred on Him authority to act as Judge, because He is the Son of Man.
28 Wonder not at this. For a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear His voice and will come forth–
29 they who have done what is right to the resurrection of Life, and they whose actions have been evil to the resurrection of judgement.
30 »I can of my own self do nothing. As I am bidden, so I judge; and mine is a just judgement, because it is not my own will that guides me, but the will of Him who sent me.«
31 »If I give testimony concerning myself, my testimony cannot be accepted.«
1 I now pass to another subject. Receive as a friend a man whose faith is weak, but not for the purpose of deciding mere matters of opinion.
2 One man's faith allows him to eat anything, while a man of weaker faith eats nothing but vegetables.
3 Let not him who eats certain food look down upon him who abstains from it, nor him who abstains from it find fault with him who eats it; for God has received both of them.
4 Who are you that you should find fault with the servant of another? Whether he stands or falls is a matter which concerns his own master. But stand he will; for the Master can give him power to stand.
7 »Yet it is the truth that I am telling you–it is to your advantage that I go away. For unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.«
8 And He, when He comes, will convict the world in respect of sin, of righteousness, and of judgement; –
9 of sin, because they do not believe in me;
1 After this I seemed to hear the far-echoing voices of a great multitude in Heaven, who said, »Hallelujah! The salvation and the glory and the power belong to our God.
2 True and just are His judgments, because He has judged the great Harlot who was corrupting the whole earth with her fornication, and He has taken vengeance for the blood of His bondservants which her hands have shed.«
3 And a second time they said, »Hallelujah! For her smoke ascends until the Ages of the Ages.«
12 So we see that every one of us will give account of himself to God.
13 Therefore let us no longer judge one another; but, instead of that, you should come to this judgement–that we must not put a stumbling-block in our brother's path, nor anything to trip him up.
14 As one who lives in union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am certain that in its own nature no food is impure'; but if people regard any food as impure, to them it is.
2 for your own judgement will be dealt –and your own measure meted– to yourselves.
3 And why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye, and not notice the beam which is in your own eye?
4 Or how say to your brother, Allow me to take the splinter out of your eye,' while the beam is in your own eye?
17 For the time has come for judgement to begin, and to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who reject God's Good News?
38 »I believe, Sir,« he said. And he threw himself at His feet.
39 »I came into this world,« said Jesus, »to judge men, that those who do not see may see, and that those who do see may become blind.«