Matthew 7:1-17 ▼

1 “ Do not judge, that you? may not be judged.

2 For in what judgment you? judge, you? will be judged; and in what measure you? measure, it will be measured to you?.

3 And why do you look at the splinter that is in the eye of your brother, but not notice the beam in your own eye?

4 Or how will you say to your brother, ‘Permit that I might cast out the splinter from your eye,’ and behold, the beam is in your eye?

5 Hypocrite! First cast out the beam from your eye, and then you will see clearly to cast out the splinter from the eye of your brother.

6 Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor cast your? pearls before the pigs, lest they will trample them among their feet and, having turned, tear you? to pieces.

7 Ask, and it will be given to you?; seek, and you? will find; knock, and it will be opened to you?.

8 For everyone asking receives; and the one seeking finds; and to the one knocking, it will be opened.

9 Or which man is of you? who, if his son will ask for bread, will give to him a stone,

10 or also, if he will ask for a fish, will give to him a serpent?

11 Therefore if you?, being evil, know to give good gifts to your? children, how much more will your? Father who is in the heavens give good things to those asking Him!

12 All things, therefore, as many as you? may want that men may do to you?, so also you? do to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

13 Enter through the narrow gate, because wide is the gate and broad the way that is leading to destruction, and many are those entering through it.

14 For narrow is the gate and compressed the way that is leading to life, and few are those finding it.

15 Beware of the false prophets, who come to you? in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

16 From their fruits you? will recognize them. Do they gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

17 Thus every good tree produces good fruits, but the rotten tree produces evil fruits.