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Matthew 7 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Judging Others

(Luk 6:37–42 )
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:1 - “Judge not, that you be not judged.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:2 - For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:3 - Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:4 - Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye?
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:5 - You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:6 - “Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.

Ask, and It Will Be Given

(Luk 11:9–13 )
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:7 - “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:8 - For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:9 - Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:10 - Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:11 - If you then, who are 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!

The Golden Rule

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:12 - “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
(Luk 13:24 )
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:13 - “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy[fn] that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:14 - For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

A Tree and Its Fruit

(Mat 12:33; Luk 6:43–45 )
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:15 - “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:16 - You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:17 - So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:18 - A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:19 - Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:20 - Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.

I Never Knew You

(Luk 6:46; 13:26, 27 )
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:21 - “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:22 - On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:23 - And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Build Your House on the Rock

(Luk 6:47–49 )
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:24 - “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:25 - And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:26 - And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:27 - And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”

The Authority of Jesus

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:28 - And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching,
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:29 - for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.
ESV Footnotes
Some manuscripts For the way is wide and easy
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