Mistari Maarufu ya Biblia kutoka Matthew 7

Shirikisha

“Ask,   and it will be given to you.   Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door   will be opened to you.

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds,   and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

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

Therefore, whatever you want others to do for you, do also the same for them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it.

“Enter through the narrow gate.   For the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction,   and there are many who go through it.

If you then, 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.

“Do not judge, so that you won’t be judged.   For you will be judged by the same standard with which you judge others, and you will be measured by the same measure you use.

But everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

Why do you look at the splinter in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the beam of wood in your own eye?   Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the splinter out of your eye,’ and look, there’s a beam of wood in your own eye?

“Be on your guard against false prophets   who come to you in sheep’s   clothing   but inwardly are ravaging wolves.   You’ll recognize them by their fruit.   Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles?

In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit.

A good tree can’t produce bad fruit; neither can a bad tree produce good fruit.

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