Matthew 7
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1“Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. 2For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you. 3Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the beam that is in your own eye? 4Or how will you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ and look, the beam is in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye. 6“Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. 7“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 9Or is there any man among you who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! 12“Therefore, whatever you want people to do to you, do also to them; for this is the Law and the Prophets. 13“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter through it. 14How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the road that leads to life, and few are those who find it! 15“Watch out for the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17So every good tree produces good fruit, but the rotten tree produces bad fruit. 18A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a rotten tree produce good fruit. 19Every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20So then, you will recognize them by their fruits. 21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’ 24“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25The rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat against that house, and it did not fall; for it had been founded on the rock. 26And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27The rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they struck against that house, and it fell; and great was its fall.” 28When Jesus had finished saying these words, the crowds were astounded at his teaching, 29for he was teaching them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.
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