25 Bible Verses About Criticism (ESV)

7:1 “Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

11 Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. 12 There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

6:1 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

4 Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

6   Faithful are the wounds of a friend;
    profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

31   The ear that listens to life-giving reproof
    will dwell among the wise.

24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

24 And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,

15:1   A soft answer turns away wrath,
    but a harsh word stirs up anger.

17   Iron sharpens iron,
    and one man sharpens another.

8   Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you;
    reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

15 But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

11   A fool gives full vent to his spirit,
    but a wise man quietly holds it back.

5   Better is open rebuke
    than hidden love.
6   Faithful are the wounds of a friend;
    profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

18   Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction,
    but whoever heeds reproof is honored.

11 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

13   The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil.
  Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
    and perverted speech I hate.

19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

51 “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.

21 For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.