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Matthew 7

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1“Judge not, that you be not judged. ✦ 2For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. ✦ 3And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? ✦ 4Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? 5Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. ✦ 6“Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces. ✦ 7“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. ✦ 8For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. ✦ 9Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? ✦ 10Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! ✦ 12Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. ✦ 13“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. ✦ 14Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. ✦ 15“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. ✦ 16You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? ✦ 17Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. ✦ 18A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. ✦ 19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ✦ 20Therefore by their fruits you will know them. ✦ 21“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. ✦ 22Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ ✦ 23And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ ✦ 24“Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: ✦ 25and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. ✦ 26“But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: ✦ 27and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.” ✦ 28And so it was, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people were astonished at His teaching, ✦ 29for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. ✦

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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Luke 6 ·11Luke 13 ·10Matt 7 ·9Matt 25 ·8John 15 ·7Matt 5 ·6Matt 18 ·6Matt 12 ·5

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