Matthew 7
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Do Not Judge
1“Do not judge, so that you won’t be judged. # Mk 4:24-25; Lk 6:37-42 2For with the judgment you use, # Lit you judge you will be judged, and with the measure you use, # Lit you measure it will be measured to you. # Mk 4:24; Lk 6:38; Rm 2:1; 14:10; Jms 2:13 3Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the log in your own eye? # Lk 6:41; Jn 8:7-9 4Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and look, there’s a log in your eye? 5Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye. 6Don’t give what is holy to dogs or toss your pearls before pigs, # Pr 9:7-8; 23:9; Mt 15:26 or they will trample them with their feet, turn, and tear you to pieces.
Keep Asking, Searching, Knocking
7“Keep asking, # Or Ask # Lk 11:9-13 and it will be given to you. # Mt 18:22; Mk 11:24; Jn 14:13-14; 15:7; 16:24; Jms 1:5; 1Jn 3:22; 5:14 Keep searching, # Or Search and you will find. Keep knocking, # Or Knock and the door # Lit and it will be opened to you. 8For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, # Pr 8:17; Is 55:6; Jr 29:12-13 and to the one who knocks, the door # Lit knocks, it will be opened. 9What man among you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11If you then, who are evil, # Gn 6:5; 8:21 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! 12Therefore, whatever you want others to do for you, do also the same for them — this is the Law and the Prophets. # When capitalized, the Law and the Prophets = the OT # Mt 22:40; Lk 6:31; Rm 13:8; Gl 5:14
Entering the Kingdom
13“Enter through the narrow gate. # Lk 13:23-24 For the gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to destruction, # Mt 26:8; Mk 14:4; Jn 17:12; Ac 8:20; Rm 9:22; Php 1:28 and there are many who go through it. 14How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it.
15“Beware of false prophets # Mt 24:11,24; Mk 13:22; Lk 6:26; Ac 13:6; 2Pt 2:1 who come to you in sheep’s # Mt 9:36; 10:6,16; 12:11-12; 15:24; 18:12-13 clothing # Mc 3:5; 2Tm 3:5 but inwardly are ravaging wolves. # Ezk 22:27; Jn 10:12; Ac 20:29 16You’ll recognize them by their fruit. # Pr 11:30; Mt 12:33; Lk 6:43-44; Jn 4:36; Jms 3:12 Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles? # Mt 13:7; Heb 6:8 17In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit. 18A good tree can’t produce bad fruit; neither can a bad tree produce good fruit. 19Every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. # Jr 11:19; Mt 3:10; Lk 3:9; 13:7; Jn 15:2; Jd 12 20So you’ll recognize them by their fruit. # Mt 7:16; 12:33; Lk 6:44; Jms 3:12
21“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord! ’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, # Mt 3:2; 18:3; Mk 9:43 but only the one who does the will # Ps 143:10; Pr 16:9; Mt 12:50; Gl 1:4; Eph 1:9; 1Jn 2:17 of My Father in heaven. # Hs 8:2; Mt 25:11; Lk 6:46; Rm 2:13; Jms 1:22 22On that day many will say to Me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in Your name, drive out demons # Mk 3:15; Rv 9:20; 18:2 in Your name, and do many miracles in Your name? ’ # Nm 24:4; Mt 10:15; Lk 13:25; Jn 11:51; 1Co 13:2 23Then I will announce to them, ‘I never knew you! Depart from Me, you lawbreakers!’ # Lit you who work lawlessness # Ps 5:5; 6:8; Mt 25:12,41; Lk 13:25-27 # Ps 6:8
The Two Foundations
24“Therefore, # Lk 6:47-49; Jms 1:22-25 everyone who hears these words # Mt 12:36; Mk 4:14; Lk 6:47; 8:21; Jn 1:1; 2:22 of Mine and acts on them will be like a sensible man who built his house on the rock. 25The rain fell, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and pounded that house. Yet it didn’t collapse, because its foundation was on the rock. 26But 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. 27The rain fell, the rivers rose, the winds blew and pounded that house, and it collapsed. And its collapse was great! ”
28When Jesus had finished this sermon, # Lit had ended these words # Mt 11:1; 13:53; 19:1; 26:1 the crowds were astonished at His teaching, # Mt 13:54; 22:23; Mk 1:22; 6:2; 11:18; Lk 4:32; Jn 7:46 29because He was teaching them like one who had authority, and not like their scribes.
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Matthew 7
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1Judge not, that ye may not be judged; 2for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you. 3But why lookest thou on the mote that is in the eye of thy brother, but observest not the beam that is in thine eye? 4Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Allow me, I will cast out the mote from thine eye; and behold, the beam is in thine eye? 5Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine eye, and then thou wilt see clearly to cast out the mote out of the eye of thy brother. 6Give not that which is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, lest they trample them with their feet, and turning round rend you.
7Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you. 8For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened. 9Or what man is there of you who, if his son shall ask of him a loaf of bread, will give him a stone; 10and if he ask a fish, will give him a serpent? 11If therefore ye, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to them that ask of him?
12Therefore all things whatever ye desire that men should do to you, thus do ye also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets. 13Enter in through the narrow gate, for wide the gate and broad the way that leads to destruction, and many are they who enter in through it. 14For narrow the gate and straitened the way that leads to life, and they are few who find it.
15But beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but within are ravening wolves. 16By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather a bunch of grapes from thorns, or from thistles figs? 17So every good tree produces good fruits, but the worthless tree produces bad fruits. 18A good tree cannot produce bad fruits, nor a worthless tree produce good fruits. 19Every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire. 20By their fruits then surely ye shall know them.
21Not every one who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he that does the will of my Father who is in the heavens. 22Many shall say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied through thy name, and through thy name cast out demons, and through thy name done many works of power? 23and then will I avow unto them, I never knew you. Depart from me, workers of lawlessness. 24Whoever therefore hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock; 25and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and fell upon that house, and it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock. 26And every one who hears these my words and does not do them, he shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand; 27and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, and it fell, and its fall was great. 28And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were astonished at his doctrine, 29for he taught them as having authority, and not as their scribes.
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First published in 1890. This edition is maintained by the British and Foreign Bible Society.