1 Corinthians 11:31 Meaning and Explanation
“For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.”
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What Does 1 Corinthians 11:31 Mean?
Paul offers a way of escape from the judgment he has described. If we would examine and judge ourselves honestly, we would not fall under God's judging hand. The remedy lies in our own willingness to look inward first.
This is a gracious principle that runs through all of Scripture. God's discipline meets us where we have refused to meet ourselves. The one who searches his own heart, confessing and turning, forestalls the harder lesson that would otherwise come. Self-examination is thus not a burden but a mercy, a door God leaves open. Paul invites the Corinthians, and every reader, to take up that humble honesty, so that judgment gives way to the gentler path of repentance freely chosen.
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What does 1 Corinthians 11:31 mean?
If we honestly judged ourselves, we would not come under judgment.