MATTHEW Chapter 7 - Judging Others

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)