Matthew 7

Don’t Judge Other People

1“Don’t judge other people, or you’ll be judged yourself. 2You will be judged in the same way that you judge others, and the measure you use for others will be used for you.

3“Why do you look at the bit of sawdust in your friend’s eye but pay no attention to the chunk of wood in your own eye? 4How can you say to your friend, ‘Let me take the bit of sawdust out of your eye,’ when there’s a log in your own eye? 5You hypocrite! First take the piece of wood out of your own eye, and then you’ll be able to see to take the bit of sawdust out of your friend’s eye.

6“Don’t give holy things to dogs, and don’t throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may stomp all over them and then turn around and tear you to pieces.

Ask, Seek, Knock

7“Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened to you. 8For everyone who asks receives, the one who seeks finds, and the door will be opened to anyone who knocks.

9“Suppose your son asks for bread. Which of you would give him a stone? 10Or suppose he asks for a fish. Which of you would give him a snake? 11Even people who are bad know how to give good gifts to their children. How much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him! 12In everything, do to others what you would want them to do to you. That sums up the Law and the Prophets.

The Large and Small Gates

13“Enter through the narrow gate. The gate is large and the road is wide that leads to ruin. Many people go that way. 14But the gate is small and the road is narrow that leads to life. Only a few people find it.

True and False Prophets

15“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you disguised as sheep, but on the inside they’re hungry wolves. 16You’ll recognize them by their fruit. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? 17In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18A good tree can’t bear bad fruit, and a bad tree can’t bear good fruit. 19Every tree that doesn’t bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20So you’ll recognize them by their fruit.

True and False Disciples

21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only those who do the will of my Father in heaven. 22Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord! Lord! Didn’t we prophesy in your name? Didn’t we drive out demons? Didn’t we do many miracles?’ 23But I will tell them outright, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me—you didn’t follow God’s ways!’

Put Jesus’ Words into Practice

24“So then, everyone who hears my words and puts them into practice is like a wise person who built a house on a rock. 25The rain came down, the water rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, but it didn’t fall, because it was built on a rock. 26Everyone who hears my words but doesn’t put them into practice is like a foolish person who built a house on the sand. 27The rain came down, the water rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a loud crash.”

28When Jesus had finished saying all these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching. 29He taught like one who had authority, and not like their teachers of the law.

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Matthew 7

CHAPTER 7

1Do not ye deem, that ye be not deemed;

2for in what doom ye deem, ye shall be deemed, and in what measure ye mete, it shall be meted again to you.

3But what seest thou a little mote in the eye of thy brother, and seest not a beam in thine own eye?

4Or how sayest thou to thy brother, Brother, suffer [that] I shall do out a mote from thine eye, and lo! a beam is in thine own eye?

5Hypocrite, first do out the beam of thine eye or do thou out first the beam of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see to do out the mote of the eye of thy brother.

6Do not ye give holy thing to hounds, neither cast ye your margarites before swine, lest peradventure they defoul them with their feet, and the hounds be turned, and tear you all to pieces.

7Ask ye, and it shall be given to you; seek ye, and ye shall find; knock ye, and it shall be opened to you.

8For each that asketh, taketh; and he that seeketh, findeth; and it shall be opened to him, that knocketh.

9What man of you is, that if his son ask him bread, whether he will take to him a stone?

10Or if he ask [a] fish, whether he will give [to] him an adder?

11Therefore if ye, when ye be evil men, know how to give good gifts to your sons, how much more your Father that is in heavens shall give good things to men that ask him?

12Therefore all things, whatever things ye will that men do to you, do ye to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

13Enter ye by the strait gate; for the gate that leadeth to perdition, [or to damnation], is large, and the way is broad, and there be many that enter by it.

14How strait is the gate, and narrow the way, that leadeth to life, and there be few that find it.

15Be ye ware of false prophets, that come to you in clothings of sheep, but withinforth they be wolves of raven [or but within they be ravishing wolves];

16of their fruits ye shall know them. Whether men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of briars?

17So every good tree maketh good fruits; but an evil tree maketh evil fruits.

18A good tree may not make evil fruits, neither an evil tree [may] make good fruits.

19Every tree that maketh not good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire.

20Therefore of their fruits ye shall know them.

21Not every man that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heavens; but he that doeth the will of my Father that is in heavens, he shall enter into the kingdom of heavens.

22Many shall say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, whether we have not prophesied in thy name, and have cast out fiends [or devils] in thy name, and have done many virtues in thy name?

23And then I shall acknowledge to them, That I knew you never; depart away from me, ye that work wicked-ness.

24Therefore every man that heareth these my words, and doeth them, shall be made like to a wise man, that hath builded his house on a stone.

25And rain came down, and floods came, and winds blew, and rushed into that house; and it felled not down, for it was founded on a stone.

26And every man that heareth these my words, and doeth them not, is like a fool, that hath builded his house on gravel [or on sand].

27And rain came down, and floods came, and winds blew, and hurled against that house; and it felled down, and the falling down thereof was great.

28And it was done, when Jesus had ended these words, the people wondered on his teaching;

29for he taught them, as he that had power, and not as the scribes and the Pharisees.

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