This powerful, yet perhaps difficult to be understood scripture, tells us not to pass judgment upon anything (or anyone) before all things are clearly known. First impressions are generally wrong and many other judgments we make end up wrong. We judge people and things mostly by what we see and hear, and since we cannot look on the heart, our judgment is often wrong. The Lord tells us not to judge or pass sentence on someone until it’s all over. While it is clear that someone who has no interest in God and no apparent faith in Christ, is lost; yet, even believers can get in such a bad way as to look like they are lost. Here is righteous judgment; how was he or she before? What was their tenor of life? Perhaps they are going through a really bad time (perhaps their own fault).If you looked at Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Peter, yea any and all of God’s people at any given time, you may think them to be lost men and women. But the best of men and women are human beings at best and vanity. Sinners will sin, but the Lord in mercy came to save sinners. All believers get in a bad way (Psa.107) and often for a long time. Like David, because of our sinfulness, we can fall in a pit, get in a dark hole, act like a mad man, be overtaken by a fault, and look like all is lost. But God, Who is rich in mercy . . . Bless His Holy Name, always brings His child out. He will not leave them nor forsake them, though they leave Him for a while and deny Him. So, wait to pass judgment.