7:1 {Mat 7:1-6 & Luk 6:37-42; similar Joh 5:30, 7:24; Lev 19:15.} Do° not judge, in-order-that you° might not be judged!
7:2 For* in what judgment you° judge, you° will be judged and in what measure you° measure, it will be measured to you°.
7:3 And why are you looking at the speck, the one in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the beam in your own eye?
7:4 Or how will you say to your brother, Allow me, that I may cast forth the speck away from your eye, and behold, the beam in your own eye?
7:5 You hypocrite, first cast forth the beam out-of your own eye, and then you will see precisely to cast forth the speck away from your brother’s eye.
7:6 Do° not give the holy things to the dogs, nor cast your° pearls before the swine, lest they trample them down with* their feet and then after turned, they may rip at you°. {Mat 7:7-11; no parallel.}
7:7 Ask° and it will be given to you°; seek° and you° will be finding; knock° and it will be opened to you°.
7:8 For* everyone who is asking, receives; and the one seeking, is finding; and to the one knocking, it will be opened.
7:9 Or what man is there out-of you°, who, if his son asks him for a loaf he will not give him a stone, will he?
7:10 And if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a serpent, will he?
7:11 Therefore, if you°, being evil, know to give good presents to your° children, how-many more will your° Father, the one in the heavens, be giving good things to the ones asking him? {Mat 7:12 & Luk 6:31.}
7:12 Therefore, all things, as many as you° would wish that* men should do* for you°, so do*° also to them; for* this is the law and the prophets. {Mat 7:13-23 & Luk 6:43-45.}
7:13 Enter° in through the narrow gate, because wide is the gate and broad is the way, the one leading to the destruction and many are the ones entering through it.
7:14 How narrow is the gate and pressed is the way, the one leading to the life and few are the ones finding it.
7:15 But take-heed° stay away from false prophets, who are coming to you° in sheep’s clothing, but inside are ravening wolves.
7:16 You° will fully-know them from their fruits. They do not collect a grape-cluster from thorns or figs from thistles, do they?
7:17 Thus every good tree produces good fruits, but the rotten tree produces evil fruits.
7:18 A good tree is not able to produce evil fruits, nor is a rotten tree able to produce good fruits.
7:19 Every tree which is not producing good fruit is cut off and cast into the fire.
7:20 Consequently*, you° will fully-know them from their fruits.
7:21 Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but the one practicing the will of my Father, the one in the heavens.
7:22 Many will be saying to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not: prophesy in your name, and cast forth demons in your name, and practiced many miracles in your name?
7:23 And then I will confess to them, I never knew you°. Depart° from me, the ones working the lawlessness. {Mat 7:24-29 & Luk 6:46-49.}
7:24 Therefore, everyone who hears these words from me and practices them, I will liken him to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock;
7:25 and the rain descended and the rivers came up and the winds blew and fell on that house, and it did not fall; for* it had been founded upon the rock.
7:26 And everyone hearing these words from me and who is not doing* them, will be similar to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand;
7:27 and the rain descended and the rivers came up and the winds blew and hit that house and it fell and great was its fall.
7:28 And it happened, when Jesus completed these words, the crowds were being astounded upon the basis of his teaching;
7:29 for* he was teaching them like one having authority and not like the scribes.