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📖 Verse Of The Day

— Romans 2:1

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🧠 Devotional

We all sin. We just do not all sin in the same ways.

Romans 3:23 says, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” That “all” puts every one of us in the same category: sinners who fall short of God.

But our sins can look very different.

Just look at Romans 1. Paul mentions greed, envy, deceit, gossip, arrogance, disobedience, and more. One person may fight a temptation every day that barely even crosses someone else’s mind.

And that can make someone else’s sin really easy to judge.

If you have never struggled with their particular sin, you might honestly wonder, How could they keep doing that? Meanwhile, they may look at one of your struggles and wonder the exact same thing.

Paul seems to anticipate this.

After describing all that sin in Romans 1, he immediately turns to the person judging it:

“You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else” (Romans 2:1).

That “therefore” matters. Paul did not write the chapter divisions. His warning about judging follows directly from his discussion of sin.

In other words, Paul does not let us spend much time looking at their sin before turning the mirror toward ours.

Then he makes another interesting distinction: “We know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth” (Romans 2:2).

God can judge perfectly because God knows the truth perfectly. We cannot.

We see someone’s actions. God sees theirs and ours. He knows the temptation, the heart, the motives, and every sin nobody else sees.

That does not make sin less serious. It should make us more humble when looking at another sinner.

Jesus gives us the perfect picture in Matthew 7. A man sees the speck in his brother’s eye while missing the plank in his own.

The speck is real. Jesus does not say to ignore it. He says to deal with your own plank first, “and then you will see clearly to remove the speck” (Matthew 7:5).

That is the point.

Someone else’s sin being different from yours does not make it less sinful.

But it does not make you less sinful either.

We all sin differently. We all fall short of the same God.

So call sin what it is, but never use someone else’s sin as a reason to look down on the sinner.

You need the same grace they do.