1 Corinthians 6:3 (NIV)
3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!
1 Corinthians 5:12-13 (NIV)
12 What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? 13 God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”[a]
Footnotes:
a. 1 Corinthians 5:13 Deut. 13:5; 17:7; 19:19; 21:21; 22:21,24; 24:7
With respect to judging, there is a proper procedure and protocol to follow in accordance with Christ's every Command. And our jurisdiction is over believers, God's kingdom, which eventually will include angels (e.g. casting them into the lake of fire; though arguably, we're already judging them in the sense of casting out demons—and those who act like them—out from amongst us).
If we were a sovereign nation, one where the courts were actually submitted to YHWH's Commands as the Law of the land—thus where only the worship of YHWH is allowed (no idols, no other gods, no "free exercise of religion", but just the worship of YHWH allowed, as is Commanded in His Law)—as it is written, then we'd have jurisdiction to judge the stranger living amongst us by the same laws too.
Otherwise, that judging / condemnation of behavior, by His Laws, is limited to our congregations (where two or three believers gather). YHWH will deal with those outside the Body (
and those claiming to be of the Body but are acting in disaccord with what is written) for their criminality/lawless behavior/sins outside the church / outside the set-apart body of believers once we expel them from amongst us (since they refuse to repent), be it through [1] their own courts/standards or [2] judged by natural calamities (the natural consequence of their sinful choices, or natural disaster, tragic events, natural circumstances that He orchestrates against them on purpose to judge them).
Ezekiel 7:27 (NIV)
27 The king will mourn,
the prince will be clothed with despair,
and the hands of the people of the land will tremble.
I will deal with them according to their conduct,
and by their own standards I will judge them.
“‘Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”
Ezekiel 14:21 (NIV)
21 “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem my four dreadful judgments—sword and famine and wild beasts and plague—to kill its men and their animals!
Luke 13:1-5 (NIV)
13 Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 2 Jesus answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? 3 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. 4 Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”
Proverbs 11:31 (NIV)
31 If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!
As hinted at above, He does the same with so-called Israelites who won't submit to His Standards fully.
1 Corinthians 11:29-31 (NIV)
29 For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ eat and drink judgment on themselves. 30 That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep. 31 But if we were more discerning with regard to ourselves, we would not come under such judgment.
Jew or Gentile—or however you decide to label yourself—whatever you're doing that He dislikes, stop it, or you're storing up wrath against yourself which will unleash as judgment, whether it comes through the mouth of one of His sentient creations or the rebuke of the natural circumstances around you.
Romans 2:5-11 (NIV)
5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. 6 God “will repay each person according to what they have done.”[a] 7 To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. 8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. 9 There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; 10 but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 11 For God does not show favoritism.
Footnotes:
a. Romans 2:6 Psalm 62:12; Prov. 24:12
Romans 2:29 (NIV)
29 No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.
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