Matthew 7:1-10 ▼

1 |Stop judging, so that you won't be judged,

2 because the way that you judge others will be the way that you will be judged, and you will be evaluated by the standard with which you evaluate others.

3 |Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?

4 Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when the beam is in your own eye?

5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother's eye.|

6 |Never give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs. Otherwise, they will trample them with their feet and then turn around and attack you.|

7 |Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened for you.

8 Because everyone who keeps asking will receive, and the person who keeps searching will find, and the person who keeps knocking will have the door opened.

9 |There isn't a person among you who would give his son a stone if he asked for bread, is there?

10 Or if he asks for a fish, he wouldn't give him a snake, would he?