Popular Bible Verses from The Gospel of Matthew 7

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“Ask and it will be given to you! Search and you will find! Knock and the door will be opened for you!

Everyone who asks receives; everyone who searches finds; everyone who knocks will have the door opened.

“So, then, everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

“So whatever you want people to do to you, do just that to them. Yes; this is what the law and the prophets are all about.”

But the gate leading to life is narrow, and the road going there is a tight squeeze. Not many people find their way through.

“Go in by the narrow gate. The gate that leads to destruction, you see, is nice and wide, and the road going there has plenty of room. Lots of people go that way.

Well then: you may be evil, but you still 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!

“Don’t judge people, and you won’t be judged yourself. You’ll be judged, you see, by the judgment you use to judge others! You’ll be measured by the measuring-rod you use to measure others!

And all those who hear these words of mine and don’t do them—they will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

Why do you stare at the splinter in your neighbor’s eye, but ignore the plank in your own? How can you say to your neighbor, ‘Here—let me get that splinter out of your eye,’ when you’ve got the plank in your own?

“Watch out for false prophets. They will come to you dressed like sheep, but inside they are hungry wolves. You’ll be able to tell them by the fruit they bear: you don’t find grapes growing on thorn-bushes, do you, or figs on thistles?

Well, in the same way, good trees produce good fruit, and bad trees produce bad fruit.

Actually, good trees can’t produce bad fruit, nor can bad ones produce good fruit!

Every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down and thrown on the fire.