What Does Matthew 7:2 Mean in the King James?
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The measure in your hand becomes the measure over your own life.
THE MEANING
The way you weigh another person sets the standard by which you are weighed. Your judgments and measures do not stay outside your own life; the verse places you inside the same scale you apply.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that your judgments are one-way, that you can place another under a harsh standard while staying beyond its reach.
THE ROOT
κρίμα
krima
GROWS FROM
κρίνω
krinō
To distinguish, decide, or judge.
“judgment / judge / be judged” in this verse is krima. The noun “judgment,” the act “you judge,” and the passive “you will be judged” all belong to the same Greek word family. The sentence folds the one who judges into the judgment itself: the standard you apply also reaches you.
ALSO GROWS
krinō: To judge or decide.
κρίνω
This is the root behind both the act of judging and the judgment that comes back.
krisis: Judgment or decision.
κρίσις
It shows the same root forming the judgment named in the verse.
kritēs: A judge.
κριτής
The word for the person judging shares the same root as the judgment and the act.
μέτρῳ
metrō
GROWS FROM
μέτρον / μετρέω (metron / metreō)
A measure or standard; to measure.
“measure / mete / be measured” in this verse is metrō. The noun “measure,” the verb “you measure,” and “it will be measured” repeat one Greek word family. What returns is shaped by the very measure used in the first place.
ALSO GROWS
metron: A measure or standard.
μέτρον
It names the standard the reader uses toward another person.
metreō: To measure.
μετρέω
This verb supplies both the measuring action and the passive form describing what comes back.
THE PATTERN
The standard applied to others returns as the standard that measures the self.
With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.THE THREAD
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.Luke repeats the same Greek measure-family: measure, measure, be measured. Its image of a good measure running over opens Matthew’s saying further: the measure given and the measure received belong to one movement.
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