Romans 2:3
And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
To judge another for wrongdoing while doing the same wrong is to condemn oneself, to stand without excuse, and to face a judgment from which there is no escape. The judgment of God is certain and according to truth against all who commit such things, and every life record will come under review before Him. No one who judges in this way will escape, for in judging another the judger condemns himself.
To despise the riches of God's goodness and forbearance and longsuffering is without excuse, because God's goodness leads to repentance. Hardness and an impenitent heart treasure up wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God. God will render to every man according to his deeds, with no respect of persons.
To those who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality He will give eternal life, which is a life that runs parallel with the life of Jehovah. To those who are contentious and obey not the truth but obey unrighteousness will come indignation and wrath, with tribulation and anguish upon every soul that does evil, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile. But glory, honor and peace will come to every man that works good, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile, for not the hearers of the law are just before God but the doers of the law shall be justified.
This condemns all who have had the truth laid before them yet continue the things condemned by the inspired record, as the Jewish people and the rulers of the church in Christ's day did when they betrayed their sacred trust, would not listen to reproof, and by selfishness, self-exaltation, covetousness and oppression misrepresented God and His law. No human has the right to measure the characters of fellow men or to judge church members for their faults and use those faults as an excuse for not being a Christian. Judgment has been given only to Christ, because He lived humanity and He alone can understand human weakness and human striving to attain Christian perfection; although there are counterfeit Christians in every church, the tares and the wheat must grow together until the harvest, the church militant today is mixed with wheat and tares and is not yet the church triumphant, and the work of judgment has not been committed into human hands.
The same principle applied to those who unsparingly condemned Edson White for blame in financial management while their own financial embarrassment was not after God's order, like a man trying to pull a mote out of his brother's eye while a beam is in his own eye. Readiness to judge and suspicion toward brethren reveal distrust of one's own principles, lack in one's own experience, and a condemning conscience, and fault-finding can expose a conscience that condemns itself. The sin of criticizing and condemning a brother is even greater when it adds conceit and a censorious spirit to the shared wrongdoing, since lack of forbearance and love magnifies others' faults and wounds souls.
Instead of judging others, every person is called to tremble and be afraid of self, to see that his own heart is right with God, and to examine and correct his own heart and conduct. Each is to weed his own garden with faithful self-work that leaves no time for finding fault with others or for criticizing others. Rather than judging others, each is to judge himself and make sure of election, sanctification, obedience, purification in obeying the truth, and fervent pure-hearted love for the brethren.