Matthew 7:1-18 ▼

1 Judge not, that you may not be judged:

2 for with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you measure, it shall be measured to you.

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

4 Or, how will you say to your brother, Let me pull out the splinter from your eye: and lo; a beam is in your own eye?

5 Hypocrite! first pull the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to pull the splinter out of your brother's eye.

6 Give not that which is holy to dogs, nor throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and tear you.

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

8 For every one that asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds; and to him that knocks, it shall be opened.

9 What man is there of you, of whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

10 And if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

11 If then you, 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?

12 All things, therefore, whatever you would that men should do to you, even so do you to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

13 Enter in through the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction; and many there are that go in through it.

14 How strait is the gate, and how narrow the way, that leads to life! and few there are that find it.

15 But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but within are ravenous wolves.

16 By their fruits you will know them. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles?

17 So every good tree produces goodly fruit: but an unsound tree produces diseased fruit.

18 A good tree can not produce diseased fruit; nor can an unsound tree produce goodly fruit.