So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, ¹  the circumcised believers ²  took issue with ³  him,

“Do not judge so that you will not be judged. ¹ 

“You have criticized me sharply,” ¹  says the Lord, “but you ask, ‘How have we criticized you?’

and a sound message that cannot be criticized, so that any opponent will be at a loss, ¹  because he has nothing evil to say about us.

Reinforce ¹  these commands, ²  so that they will be beyond reproach.

It is better for a person to receive ¹  a rebuke from those who are wise ²  than to listen to the song ³  of fools.

¹ Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against ²  Moses because of the Cushite ³  woman he had married ⁴  (for he had married an Ethiopian woman).

For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive. ¹ 

It ¹  could have been sold for more than three hundred silver coins ²  and the money ³  given to the poor!” So ⁴  they spoke angrily to her.

But when John rebuked Herod ¹  the tetrarch ²  because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, ³  and because of all the evil deeds ⁴  that he had done,

The Israelites did not attack them because the leaders of the community had sworn an oath to them in the name of the Lord God of Israel. ¹  The whole community criticized ²  the leaders,

The Tekoan woman said to the king, “My lord the king, let any blame fall on me and on the house of my father. But let the king and his throne be innocent!”