When you condemn someone, its my personal belief your judging them. Only God has a right to judge. So consider others better than yourselves, try to be an image of love (since God is love and we only love because he first loved us), and use wisdom when your trying to tell people about God. I love James 3:17 because it completely destroyed my old mentality of what I thought wisdom was. When you tell someone there going to hell in an inconsiderate, non-submissive fashion, I doubt your pleasing God.
James 3:17But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.
Galatians 5:22-23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Matthew 5:5-10 5
Blessed are the meek, [color="Silver"](humble)[/color]
for they will inherit the earth. 6Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
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Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy. 8Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.
9Blessed are the
peacemakers,
for they will be called sons of God.
10Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
And don't think for a second being humble makes you any less of a person. With the Lord your God who can stand against you? All our faith, hope, needs to rest in him and his grace.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.