Judging
Others
DO
NOT JUDGE, OR YOU TOO WILL BE JUDGED.
2
FOR IN THE SAME WAY YOU JUDGE OTHERS,
YOU
WILL BE JUDGED,
AND
WITH THE MEASURE YOU USE,
IT
WILL BE MEASURED TO YOU.
3
Why do you look at the Speck of sawdust in your brother's eye
And
pay no attention to the Plank in your own eye?
4
How can you say to your brother,
'Let
me take the Speck out of your eye,'
When
all the time there is a Plank in your own eye?
5
YOU HYPOCRITE,
FIRST
TAKE THE PLANK OUT OF YOUR OWN EYE,
And
then you will see clearly to remove the Speck
From
your brother's eye.
6
DO NOT GIVE DOGS WHAT IS SACRED;
DO
NOT THROW YOUR PEARLS TO PIGS.
If
you do, they may trample them under their feet,
AND
THEN TURN 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.
8
FOR EVERYONE WHO ASKS RECEIVES;
HE
WHO SEEKS FINDS;
AND
TO HIM WHO KNOCKS,
THE
DOOR WILL BE OPENED.
9
Which of you, if his son asks for bread,
Will
give him a stone?
10
Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
11
IT YOU THEN, THOUGH YOU ARE EIVL,
Know
how to give good gifts to your children.
HOW
MUCH MORE WILL YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN
GIVE
GOOD GIFTS TO THOSE WHO ASK HIM!
12
IN EVERYTHING,
DO
TO OTHERS WHAT YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO TO YOU,
FOR
THIS SUMS UP THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.
The
Narrow And Wide Gates
13
ENTER THROUGH THE NARROW GATE.
FOR
WIDE IS THE GATE AND BROAD IS THE RAOD
THAT
LEADS TO DESTRUCTION,
AND
MANY ENTER THROUGH IT.
14
BUT SMALL IS THE GATE
AND
NARROW THE ROAD THAT LEADS TO LIFE,
AND
ONLY A FEW FIND IT.
A
Tree And Its Fruit
WATCH
OUT FOR FALSE PROPHETS.
THEY
COME TO YOU IN SHEEPS'S CLOTHING,
BUT
INWARDLY THEY ARE FEROUCIOUS WOLVES.
16
BY THEIR FRUIT YOU WILL RECOGNIZE THEM.
Do
people pick grapes from thorn bushes,
Or
figs from thistles?
17
LIKEWISE EVERY GOOD TREE BEARS GOOD FRUIT,
BUT
A BAD TREE BEARS BAD FRUIT.
18
A GOOD TREE CANNOT BEAR BAD FRUIT,
AND
A BAD TREE CANNOT BEAR GOOD FRUIT.
EVERY
TREE THAT DOES NOT BEAR GOOD FRUIT
IS
CUT DOWN AND THROWN INTO THE FIRE.
19
THUS BY THEIR FRUIT YOU WILL RECONGNIZE THEM.
21
NOT EVERYONE WHO SAYS TO ME, LORD, LORD,'
WILL
ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN,
BUT
ONLY HE WHO DOES THE WILL OF MY FATHER
WHO
IS IN HEAVEN.
22
MANY WILL SAY TO ME ON THAT DAY,
'LORD,
LORD, DID WE NOT PROHOESY IN YOR NAME,
AND
IN YOUR NAME DRIVE OUT DEMONS
AND
PERFORM MANY MIRACLES?'
23
THEN I WILL TELL THEM PLAINLY,
'I
NEVER KNEW YOU.
AWAY
FROM ME, YOU EVILDOERS!'
The
Wise And Foolish Builders
24
Therefore everyone who hears these words Mine
And
puts them into Practice
Is
like a wise man who built his house on the Rock.
25
The rain came down,
The
streams rose,
And
the winds blew and beat against that house;
YET
IT DID NOT FALL,
BECAUSE
IT HAD ITS FOUNDATION ON THE ROCK.
26
But everyone who hears these words of Mine
And
does not put them into Practice
IS
LIKE A FOOLISH MAN
Who
built his house on sand.
27
The rains came down, the streams rose,
And
the winds blew and beat against that house,
AND
IT FELL WITH A GREAT CRASH.'
When
Jesus had finished saying these things,
The
crowds were Amazed at His Teaching,
29
Because he taught as one who had Authority,
And
not as their Teachers of the Law.
(Matthew
7)
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