Matthew 7

Thomson(i) 1 Judge not, that you may not be judged; 2 for as you judge, you shall be judged: and the measure which you mete, shall be measured to you again. 3 Now why art thou observant of the mote in thy brother's eye, and insensible to the splinter in thine own eye? 4 Or, how canst thou say to thy brother, Hold! let me take the mote out of thine eye, when lo! there is a splinter in thine own eye? 5 Hypocrite, first take the splinter out of thine own eye; and then thou wilt see clearly to remove the mote out of thy brother's eye. 6 Give not that which is holy to dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine; lest they trample them under foot, and turning tear you. 7 Ask, and ye shall obtain; seek and ye shall find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. 8 For every one who asketh, obtaineth; and he who seeketh, findeth; and to him who knocketh the door will be opened. 9 Is there any man among you, who, when his son asketh bread, will give him a stone; 10 or if he ask for a fish will give him a serpent? 11 If you therefore, bad as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your father who is in heaven give good things to them who ask him? 12 Whatsoever therefore you would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them, for this is the law and the prophets. 13 Enter in at the strait gate. Because the gate is wide and the way broad which leadeth to destruction, therefore many there are who go in through it: 14 because the gate is strait and the way narrow, which leadeth to life, therefore there are few who find it. 15 Now beware of false teachers, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but are inwardly ravenous wolves. 16 By their fruits you may know them. Are grapes gathered from thorns? Or figs from thistles? 17 So every good tree beareth good fruit; and every bad tree beareth bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit; nor a bad tree, good fruit. 19 Every tree which beareth not good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire. 20 So then by their fruits you will know them. 21 Not every one who saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he who doeth the will of my father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name cast out demons, and in thy name done many miracles, 23 to whom I will then declare, I never acknowledged you; Depart from me ye who work iniquity. 24 Therefore whoever heareth these words of mine and putteth them in practice, him I will compare to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock. 25 When the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, it did not fall, because it was founded on the rock. 26 But whoever heareth these words of mine, and doth not put them in practice, may be compared to a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. 27 When the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; it fell, and great was the ruin thereof. 28 When Jesus finished this discourse, the crouds were astonished at his manner of teaching; 29 for in teaching them he was like one having authority, and not like the scribes.