Sunday, September 21, 2014

One Sense of Biblical "Judgment"

Psalm 119:86, "Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments."

Reading this scripture recently inspired me to search for the sense of "judgment" in scripture.  Here are my findings so far.  

Judgment is essentially discernment of good and bad or good and evil.  Heb. 5:14 speaks of mature believers ("them that are of full age") as having "their senses exercised to discern both good and evil."  Other scriptures throughout the Bible support this definition.

Job 34:4, "Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good."

Prov. 2:9, "Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path."

Eccl. 12:14, "For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil."  

Amos 5:15a, "Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate:"

Mal. 2:17, "...When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?"

2 Cor. 5:10, "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad."

See also 2 Sam. 14:17; 1 Kings 3:9; Is. 7:15-16,  May God give us all good judgment (Phil. 1:9-11).  




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