7:1 “Do not judge others, so that you will not be judged.
7:2 For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
7:3 And why do you look at the speck · in your brother’s · eye · · but pay no attention to the log in · your own eye?
7:4 Or how dare you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from · your eye,’ and look, there is a log in · your own eye?
7:5 You hypocrite! First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will be able to see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye. ·
7:6 “Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw · your pearls in front of pigs, lest the pigs trample them under · their feet, and the dogs turn and tear you to pieces.
7:7 “Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened for you.
7:8 For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who seeks finds, and for everyone who knocks it will be opened.
7:9 Or is there any man among you who, if his son should ask · for bread, would give him a stone?
7:10 Or · if he should ask for a fish, would give him a snake?
7:11 If then you, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will · your Father · in · heaven give good things to those who ask him!
7:12 “So whatever you would like others to do to you, · do also to them, for this is the law and the prophets.
7:13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and easy the way that leads to · destruction, and many are those who enter through it.
7:14 How narrow is the gate and difficult the way that leads to · life, and few are those who find it!
7:15 “Beware of · false prophets; they come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
7:16 By · their fruits you will know them. Do people gather grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
7:17 So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the unhealthy tree bears bad fruit.
7:18 A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can an unhealthy tree bear good fruit.
7:19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
7:20 So then, by · their fruits you will know them.
7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father · in · heaven.
7:22 On that day many will say to me, · ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’
7:23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; go away from me, you who practice · lawlessness.’
7:24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine, · and does them, is like the wise man, who built his · house upon · rock.
7:25 When the rain came down, and the waters rose, and the winds blew and beat against · that house, · it did not collapse because it had been founded on · rock.
7:26 But everyone who hears these words of mine, · and does not do them, will be like the foolish man who built his · house on · sand.
7:27 When the rain came down, and the waters rose, and the winds blew and beat against · that house, · it collapsed—and great was its · fall!”
7:28 Now when Jesus had finished · · these words, the crowds were amazed at · his teaching,
7:29 for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as · their scribes.
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