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Matthew 7

1Do not judge, that you may not be judged. 2For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you measure, it shall be measured to you. 3And why do you behold the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the beam that is in your own eye? 4Or how will you say to your brother, Let me cast the speck out of your eye; and look, the beam is in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first cast the beam out of your own eye; and then you shall see clearly to cast the speck out of your brother’s eye. 6Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and rend you. 7Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: 8for everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened. 9Or what man is there among you, who, if his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone; 10or if he shall ask for a fish, will give him a serpent? 11If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? 12All things therefore whatever you would want men to do to you, even so do also to them: for this is the Torah and the prophets. 13Enter in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it. 14For narrow is the gate, and constricted the way, that leads to life, and few are those who find it. 15Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. 16By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? 17Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit. 18A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19Every tree that does not bring forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20Therefore by their fruits you shall know them. 21Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by your name, and by your name cast out demons, and by your name do many mighty works? 23And then I will profess to them, I never knew you: depart from me, you who work lawlessness. 24Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine, and does them, shall be likened to a wise man, who built his house on the rock: 25and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it did not fall: for it was founded on the rock. 26And everyone who hears these words of mine, and does not do them, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house on the sand: 27and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and struck that house; and it fell: and great was its fall. 28And it happened, when Yeshua had finished these words, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching: 29for he taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.