There is a time to speak up, a time when your voice may be used to prevent harm from befalling the powerless. But there is an important caution even in the exhortation to action. Before you speak up, make sure that you are judging righteously, and even as you are speaking, make sure that you are judging righteously. You see, there is never a time when unrighteous judgment is justified. This is not a hypothetical, unlikely straw man. Regularly, we are prone to ungodly reactions because we judge them permissible because the wrong we are correcting is so terrible. But this leads us to rashness, wrong conclusions, and greater damage. Judging righteously demands that we speak up, but it is not a get out of jail free card to ungodly behavior.