Matthew 7

Do not judge, so that you will not be judged.

For with the judgment by which you judge, you will be judged, and with the measure by which you measure, it will be measured to you. \*

Now why do you look at the speck of wood that {is} in the eye of your brother, but you do not notice the log in your eye?

Or how will you say to your brother, ‘Let me take out the speck of wood from your eye,’ while behold, the log {is} in your eye?

You hypocrite! First take out the log from your eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck of wood from the eye of your brother. \*

You should neither give the holy to the dogs nor should you throw your pearls in front of the pigs. Otherwise, they will trample them under their feet, and having turned, they will tear you to pieces. \*

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

For everyone asking receives; and the one seeking finds; and to the one knocking, it will be opened.

Or what man is there from among you, of whom his son will ask for bread—he will not give him a stone, will he?

Or he will also ask for a fish—he will not give him a snake, will he? \*

Therefore, if you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in the heavens give good things to the ones asking him?

Therefore, all things in as much as you desire that men do to you, in this manner also, you do to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. \*

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide {is} the gate and broad {is} the road that is leading to destruction, and there are many entering through it.

For the gate {is} narrow and the road has been made narrow that is leading to life, and there are few finding it. \*

Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

By their fruits you will recognize them. They do not gather grapes from a thornbush or figs from thistles, do they?

In the same way, every good tree produces good fruits, but the rotten tree produces bad fruits. \*

A good tree is not able to produce bad fruits, nor a rotten tree to produce good fruits.

Every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into a fire.

So then, by their fruits you will recognize them. \*

Not everyone saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but the one doing the will of my Father in the heavens.

Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty deeds?’

And then I will publicly declare to them, ‘I never knew you! Go away from me, the ones practicing lawlessness!’ \*

Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be compared to a wise man who built his house upon the rock.

And the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and struck against that house, but it did not fall down, for it had been founded on the rock. \*

But everyone hearing these words of mine and not doing them will be compared to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand.

And the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and struck against that house, and it fell, and its destruction was great.” \*

And it happened that when Jesus finished speaking these words, the crowds were astonished at his teaching,

for he was teaching them as having authority, and not as their scribes. \*