[Matthew 7]

 

             {Mat 7:1-6 & Luk 6:37-42; similar Joh 5:30, 7:24; Lev 19:15.}

             ^7:1 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.