Do Not Judge
2For you will be judged by the same standard with which you judge others, and you will be measured by the same measure you use.7:2 Mk 4:24; Lk 6:38; Rm 2:1; 14:10; Jms 2:13
3Why do you look at the splinter in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the beam of wood in your own eye?7:3 Lk 6:41; Jn 8:7–9
4Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the splinter out of your eye,’ and look, there’s a beam of wood in your own eye?
5Hypocrite! First take the beam of wood out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother’s eye.
Ask, Search, Knock
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“Ask,
7:7–11
Lk 11:9–13
and it will be given to you.7:7 Mt 18:22; Mk 11:24; Jn 14:13–14; 15:7; 16:24; Jms 1:5; 1Jn 3:22; 5:14 Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door7:7 Lit and it will be opened to you.
8For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds,7:8 Pr 8:17; Is 55:6; Jr 29:12–13 and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
9Who among you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
10Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
Entering the Kingdom
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“Enter through the narrow gate.
7:13–14
Lk 13:23–24
For the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction,7:13 Mt 26:8; Mk 14:4; Jn 17:12; Ac 8:20; Rm 9:22; Php 1:28 and there are many who go through it.
14How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it.
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“Be on your guard against false prophets
7:15
Mt 24:11,24; Mk 13:22; Lk 6:26; Ac 13:6; 2Pt 2:1
who come to you in sheep’s7:15 Mt 9:36; 10:6,16; 12:11–12; 15:24; 18:12–13 clothing7:15 Mc 3:5; 2Tm 3:5 but inwardly are ravaging wolves.7:15 Ezk 22:27; Jn 10:12; Ac 20:29
16You’ll recognize them by their fruit.7:16–21 Pr 11:30; Mt 12:33; Lk 6:43–44; Jn 4:36; Jms 3:12 Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles?7:16 Mt 13:7; Heb 6:8
17In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit.
18A good tree can’t produce bad fruit; neither can a bad tree produce good fruit.
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“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven,
7:21
Mt 3:2; 18:3; Mk 9:43
but only the one who does the will7:21 Ps 143:10; Pr 16:9; Mt 12:50; Gl 1:4; Eph 1:9; 1Jn 2:17 of my Father in heaven.7:21 Hs 8:2; Mt 25:11; Lk 6:46; Rm 2:13; Jms 1:22
The Two Foundations
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“Therefore,
7:24–27
Lk 6:47–49; Jms 1:22–25
everyone who hears these words7:24 Mt 12:36; Mk 4:14; Lk 6:47; 8:21; Jn 1:1; 2:22 of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
25The rain fell, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and pounded that house. Yet it didn’t collapse, because its foundation was on the rock.
26But everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
27The rain fell, the rivers rose, the winds blew and pounded that house, and it collapsed. It collapsed with a great crash.”
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