7:1  "Do not judge so that you will not receive judgment.

7:2  "For in the way you judge, you will receive judgment; and by your standard of measure, it will come back to you in like measure.

7:3  "Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye?

7:4  "Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' and behold, the log remains in your own eye?

7:5  "You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

7:6  "Do not give holy things to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

7:7  "Ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and you will have it opened to you.

7:8  "For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will open.

7:9  "Or what man do you find among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone?

7:10  "Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?

7:11  "If you then, having evil in you, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!

7:12  "In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this consists of the Law and the Prophets.

7:13  "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate proves wide and the way proves broad that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.

7:14  "For the gate proves small and the way proves narrow that leads to life, and few find it.

7:15  "Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly show themselves as ravenous wolves.

7:16  "You will know them by their fruits. We do not gather grapes from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, do we?

7:17  "So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.

7:18  "A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit.

7:19  "Every tree that does not bear good fruit we cut down and throw into the fire.

7:20  "So then, you will know them by their fruits.

7:21  "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who lives in heaven will enter.

7:22  "Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?'

7:23  "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.'

7:24  "Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, we may compare to a wise man who built his house on the rock.

7:25  "And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for he constructed on the rock.

7:26  "Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them compares to a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

7:27  "The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house. The house fell--and its fall proved devastating."

7:28  When Jesus had finished these words, the crowds showed amazement at His teaching;

7:29  for He taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.