Matthew - Chapter 7

1 Do not judge, in order that you should not be judged. 2 For with the judgment that you judge with, you shall be judged; and by the measure that you measure, shall it be measured to you. 3 And why do you observe the straw in the eye of your brother, and do not regard the beam that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, Allow me to pluck the straw from your eye; and behold! a beam is in your own eye. 5 You hypocrite; pluck first the beam from your own eye; and then you will see clearly, to pluck the straw out of the eye of your brother. If you are in my bosom and you do not do the will of my Father who is in heaven, I will cast you away from my bosom.*

6 You should not hang consecrated ornaments on dogs and you should not cast your pearls before swine in case they tread them under their feet and turn and cut you. 7 Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. For he who seeks should not quit seeking until he finds, and when he finds he will be amazed, and having been amazed he will be strengthened, and having been strengthened he will find rest. 8 For, every one that asks, receives and he that seeks, finds and to him that knocks, it shall be opened. 9 For what man is there among you, of whom if his son asks for bread, will he give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks of him a fish, will he give him a serpent?

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 them that ask him? 12 All that which you desire men do to you, so also you should do to them: for this is the Torah and the Prophets.

13 Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad the way that leads to destruction; and many are they that walk in it. 14 How small is the gate and straitened is the way that leads to life, and it is few who find it! 15 Beware of false prophets who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but on the inside they are ravenous wolves.

16 And by their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles? 17 So every good tree bears good fruits; but a bad tree bears bad fruits. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruits; nor can a bad tree bear good fruits. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruits is cut down and consigned to the fire. 20 Therefore, by their fruits you shall know them.

21 It is not everyone who says to me, Mari, Mari*, will enter into the kingdom of heaven: but only he that does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Mari, Mari, have we not prophesied in your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your name performed many miracles? 23 And then I will declare to them: I have not known you; depart from me, you workers of wickedness.

24 Every one therefore that hears these my words, and puts them into practice, will be like a wise man, one that built his house upon a rock. 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew; and they rushed upon that house; and it did not fall, for its foundations were laid upon a rock. 26 And every one that hears these my words, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man that built his house upon sand. 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew; and they rushed upon that house, and it fell; and its ruin was immense.

28 And so it was, that when Yeshua had concluded these words, the crowds were astonished at his teaching: 29 for he would teach them as one having authority; and not as their Scribes and Pharisees.