7Matthew 7

Judging Others

1Don't condemn others, and God won't condemn you.Select Matthew 7:1

2God will be as hard on you as you are on others! He will treat you exactly as you treat them.Select Matthew 7:2

3You can see the speck in your friend's eye, but you don't notice the log in your own eye.Select Matthew 7:3

4How can you say, “My friend, let me take the speck out of your eye,” when you don't see the log in your own eye?Select Matthew 7:4

5You're nothing but show-offs! First, take the log out of your own eye; then you can see how to take the speck out of your friend's eye.Select Matthew 7:5

6Don't give to dogs what belongs to God. They will only turn and attack you. Don't throw pearls down in front of pigs. They will trample all over them.Select Matthew 7:6

Ask, Search, Knock

7Ask, and you will receive. Search, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened for you.Select Matthew 7:7

8Everyone who asks will receive. Everyone who searches will find. And the door will be opened for everyone who knocks.Select Matthew 7:8

9Would any of you give your hungry child a stone, if the child asked for some bread?Select Matthew 7:9

10Would you give your child a snake if the child asked for a fish?Select Matthew 7:10

11As bad as you are, you still know how to give good gifts to your children. But your heavenly Father is even more ready to give good things to people who ask.Select Matthew 7:11

12Treat others as you want them to treat you. This is what the Law and the Prophets are all about.Select Matthew 7:12

The Narrow Gate

13Go in through the narrow gate. The gate to destruction is wide, and the road that leads there is easy to follow. A lot of people go through that gate.Select Matthew 7:13

14But the gate to life is very narrow. The road that leads there is so hard to follow that only a few people find it.Select Matthew 7:14

A Tree and Its Fruit

15Watch out for false prophets! They dress up like sheep, but inside they are wolves who have come to attack you.Select Matthew 7:15

16You can tell what they are by what they do. No one picks grapes or figs from thornbushes.Select Matthew 7:16

17A good tree produces good fruit, and a bad tree produces bad fruit.Select Matthew 7:17

18A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit.Select Matthew 7:18

19Every tree producing bad fruit will be chopped down and burned.Select Matthew 7:19

20You can tell who the false prophets are by their deeds.Select Matthew 7:20

A Warning

21Not everyone who calls me their Lord will get into the kingdom of heaven. Only the ones who obey my Father in heaven will get in.Select Matthew 7:21

22On the day of judgment many will call me their Lord. They will say, “We preached in your name, and in your name we forced out demons and worked many miracles.”Select Matthew 7:22

23But I will tell them, “I will have nothing to do with you! Get out of my sight, you evil people!”Select Matthew 7:23

Two Builders

24Anyone who hears and obeys these teachings of mine is like a wise person who built a house on solid rock.Select Matthew 7:24

25Rain poured down, rivers flooded, and winds beat against that house. But it was built on solid rock, and so it did not fall.Select Matthew 7:25

26Anyone who hears my teachings and doesn't obey them is like a foolish person who built a house on sand.Select Matthew 7:26

27Rain poured down, rivers flooded, and the winds blew and beat against that house. Finally, it fell with a crash.Select Matthew 7:27

28When Jesus finished speaking, the crowds were surprised at his teaching.Select Matthew 7:28

29He taught them like someone with authority, and not like their teachers of the Law of Moses.Select Matthew 7:29