Matthew Chapter Seven

Look at Yourselves First

^1-5Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged. For as you have been judging, so you will be judged, and the way that you measure you will be measured. And why do you take note of the grain of dust in your brother’s eye, but take no note of the big piece of wood which is in your own eye? Or how will you say to your brother, Let me take out the grain of dust from your eye, when you yourself have a big piece of wood in your own eye. You are a false one! First take out the big piece of wood from your own eye, Then will you see clearly to take out the grain of dust from your brother’s eye.

⁶Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, or put your jewels before pigs, for fear that they will be crushed under foot by the pigs, whose attack will then be made against you.

Continue to Ask

^7-11Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you: Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching, will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open. Or which of you, if his son makes a request for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he makes a request for a fish, will give him a snake? If you then, being bad, are able to give good things to your children, How much more will your Father in heaven give good things all those who make requests to Him?

¹²All those things, then, that you want men to do to you, in the same way, do so to them: because this is the Law and the Prophets

The Narrow Door

^13-14 Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction and great numbers go in by it. For narrow is the door and hard the road to life, and only a small number make discovery of it.

Two Kinds of Fruit

^15-20Be on the watch for false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves. By their fruits you will get knowledge of them. Do men get grapes from thorns or figs from weeds? Even so, every good tree gives good fruit; but the bad tree gives bad fruit. It is not possible for a good tree to give bad fruit, and a bad tree will not give good fruit. Every tree which does not give good fruit is cut down and put in the fire. So by their fruits you will get knowledge of those men.

Some Religious People will be Lost

^21-23Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven. A great number will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, Were we not prophets in your name, and, did we not send out bad spirits by your name? and did we not do works of power by your name? And then will I say to them, I never had knowledge of you: Go from me, you workers of what is bad!

Two Kinds of People

^24-27Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock base; And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were pushing against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock. And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man, who made his house on sand; And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were pushing against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.

Jesus Taught with Authority

²⁸And it came about, when Jesus to come to the end of these words, that the people were surprised at his teaching, for he was teaching as one having authority, and not as their Scribes..

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