Understand that when at the first sign of scrutiny a teacher or someone in sin says, “Judge not, back off !;” understand this beloved, all they’re doing there is misapplying that verse in order to protect themselves so that they can keep their shtick going. And for false teachers some of those shticks that they’ve got going are pretty lucrative. The last thing that they are really concerned about when they quote that verse is to uphold the righteousness which Jesus teaches in the Sermon on the Mount. Otherwise they wouldn’t twist the Scripture that way.

– Don Green