Matthew 7
1 “Do not judge, so that you will not be judged.
2 For you will be judged by the judgment you use, and you will be measured by the measure you use.
3 Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye and fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
4 Or how will you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ when there is a beam in your own eye?
5 Hypocrite, first remove the beam from your eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
6 Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, so they do not trample them underfoot and turn around and tear you apart.
7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
8 For everyone who asks receives; whoever seeks finds; and the door will be opened to whoever knocks.
9 Is there anyone among you who, if his son asks for bread, would give him a stone?
10 Or if he asks for a fish, would give him a snake?
11 So if you, though you are evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
12 So in everything, do for others what you want them to do for you, because this is the Law and the Prophets.”
13 “Enter through the narrow gate, because the gate is wide and the road is spacious that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
14 For the gate is narrow and the road is constricted that leads to life, and few find it.
15 Watch out for false prophets, who come to you dressed like sheep, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
16 You will recognize them by their fruit. Do people gather grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
17 In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit.
18 A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit.
19 Every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
20 So you will recognize them by their fruit.”
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.
22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name? Didn’t we drive out demons in your name? Didn’t we perform many miracles in your name?’
23 Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Go away from me, you who practice lawlessness.’
24 So everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
25 The rain fell, the floods came, the winds blew and battered that house, but it did not fall, because it was founded on the rock.
26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
27 The rain fell, the floods came, the winds blew and struck that house, and it fell—and its fall was great.”
28 When Jesus finished these words, the crowds were amazed at his teaching.
29 For he taught them as one who had authority, and not like their teachers of the Law.
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