Matthew 7:1-14 ▼

1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.

2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye measure, it shall be repaid to you.

3 And why seest thou the mote which is in thy brother's eye, and the beam in thine eye thou observest not?

4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let go I will cast out the mote from thine eye: and behold a beam in thine eye.

5 Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam from thine eye, and thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote from thy brother's eye.

6 Ye should not give the holy thing to dogs neither should ye cast your pearls before swine, lest they tread them down with their feet, and having turned, should rend you.

7 Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.

8 For everyone asking, receives and he seeking, finds; and to him knocking shall be opened.

9 Or what man is of you, which, if his son ask bread, he will not give him a stone?

10 And if he ask a fish, he will not give him a serpent?

11 If ye, therefore, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children how much more will your Father which is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?

12 Therefore all whatever ye would that men should do to you, so also do ye to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

13 Enter ye in through the strait gate, for broad the gate and spacious the way leading to destruction, and many are they coming in through it.

14 For strait the gate and afflicted the way leading into life, and few are they finding it.