Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.  Early in the morning he came again to the temple.  All the people came to him and he sat down and began to teach them.  The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them, they said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery.  Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women.  Now what do you say?"  They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him.  Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.  When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."  And once again he bent down and wrote on the ground.  When they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the elders; and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.  Jesus straightened up and said to her, "Woman, where are they?  Has no one condemned you?"  She said, "No one, sir."  And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you.  Go your way, and from now on do not sin again."

"Neither do I condemn you. Go your way, and from now on do not sin again."

Jesus does not condemn.  He saves.  But he does command us: "sin no more."  Nor will he condemn us on the last day.  The words he has spoken will be our judge.  "I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.  On the last day the word that I have spoken will serve as judge." (John 12.47-48)  Indeed, in John's vision of the Judgment Day we see Christ with a sharp, two-edged sword in his mouth. (Revelation 1.16)  The sword is the word of God. (Ephesians 6.17)

Jesus does not condemn.  But the people of Nineveh will.  They repented at the proclamation of Jonah but we have the proclamation of Christ!  The Queen of Sheba will condemn, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon but we have the wisdom of Christ! (Matthew 12.41-42)

The word of God, known even before Christ through the things the Father has made (Romans 1.20) enlightens our minds and hearts and informs our consciences.  "Our thoughts, then, will accuse or excuse us on the day when Christ will judge our secret thoughts." (Romans 2.15-16)  But "even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts." (1 John 3.20)