MatthewChapter 7

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¹"Do not judge others, or you will be judged. ²You will be judged in the same way you judge others. The measure you use for others will be used for you. ³Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye? Why don't you notice the wooden beam in your own eye? ⁴How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye'? All the time there is a beam in your own eye. ⁵You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye. Then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. ⁶Don't give what is holy to dogs. Don't throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet. Then they may turn and tear you to pieces. ⁷Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened to you. ⁸For everyone who asks receives. The one who seeks finds. And the door will be opened to the one who knocks. ⁹Suppose your son asks for bread. Which of you would give him a stone? ¹⁰Or if he asks for a fish, would you give him a snake? ¹¹You are evil, but you still know how to give good gifts to your children. If so, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him! ¹²So in everything, do to others what you would want them to do to you. This sums up the Law and the Prophets. ¹³Go in through the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to destruction. And many go in through it. ¹⁴But the gate is small and the road is narrow that leads to life. And only a few find it. ¹⁵Watch out for false prophets. They come to you dressed like sheep. But inside they are hungry wolves. ¹⁶You will know them by their fruit. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes? Do they pick figs from thistles? ¹⁷In the same way, every good tree grows good fruit. But a bad tree grows bad fruit. ¹⁸A good tree can't grow bad fruit. And a bad tree can't grow good fruit. ¹⁹Every tree that does not grow good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ²⁰So you will know them by their fruit. ²¹Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven. Only the one who does what my Father in heaven wants will enter. ²²On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name? Didn't we drive out demons in your name? Didn't we do many miracles in your name?' ²³Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God's law!' ²⁴So everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man. He built his house on the rock. ²⁵The rain came down. The floods rose. The winds blew and beat against that house. But it did not fall, because it was built on the rock. ²⁶But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man. He built his house on sand. ²⁷The rain came down. The floods rose. The winds blew and beat against that house. And it fell with a great crash!" ²⁸Jesus finished saying these things. And the crowds were amazed at his teaching. ²⁹This was because he taught like someone who had authority. He did not teach like their scribes.