Don’t Judge Others
After he had spoken these words, Jesus turned back to the large crowd and opened his mouth to them again, saying: 'I’m telling you plainly—don’t judge others, or you’ll be judged in return.' 'Whatever standard you use to judge others will be used on you. The same measure you dish out will come right back.'
'Why do you focus on the tiny speck in your brother’s eye while ignoring the massive log in your own?' 'How can you say to your brother, 'Let me get that speck out of your eye,' when you’ve got a log stuck in yours?' 'Hypocrite! First pull the log out of your own eye. Then you’ll see clearly enough to help with the speck in your brother’s eye.'
'Don’t give what is sacred to dogs or toss your pearls to pigs. They’ll only trample them in the mud, then turn and attack you.'
Ask, Seek, Knock
'Ask, and you’ll receive. Seek, and you’ll find. Knock, and the door will open for you.' 'Everyone who asks receives. Everyone who seeks finds. To everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.'
'If your son asks you for bread, would you hand him a stone?' 'Or if he asks for fish, would you give him a snake?' 'If you—imperfect as you are—know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him?'
'So treat others the way you want them to treat you. This is what the law and the prophets have always been about.'
The Narrow Gate
'Go in through the narrow gate. The wide gate and broad road lead to destruction, and crowds of people take that route.' 'But the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and only a few find it.'
Know Them by Their Fruit
'Watch out for false prophets. They come to you dressed like sheep, but inside they’re vicious wolves.'
'You’ll recognize them by their fruit. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?' 'Just so, every good tree produces good fruit, but a diseased tree produces bad fruit.' 'A good tree can’t bear bad fruit, and a diseased tree can’t produce good fruit.' 'Every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit gets chopped down and thrown into the fire.' 'So you’ll know them by their fruit.'
Doing What God Wants
'Not everyone who calls me 'Lord, Lord' will enter the kingdom of heaven. Only those who actually do what my Father in heaven wants.'
'Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name? Didn’t we cast out demons in your name? Didn’t we do many miracles in your name?'' 'And I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Get away from me, you who practice evil.''
Build on Rock
'So anyone who hears these words of mine and lives by them is like a wise man who built his house on solid rock.' 'The rain poured down, the floods rose, the winds howled and beat against that house—but it didn’t fall, because it was founded on rock.'
'But anyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t live by them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.' 'The rain poured down, the floods rose, the winds howled and beat against that house—and it collapsed. The destruction was complete.'
Influences
- 14:2 — Matthew 7:2 (KJV)For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
- 14:2 — Matthew 7:2 (KJV)For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
- 14:3 — Matthew 7:3 (KJV)And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
- 14:4 — Matthew 7:4 (KJV)Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
- 14:5 — Matthew 7:5 (KJV)Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
- 14:6 — Matthew 7:6 (KJV)Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
- 14:7 — Matthew 7:7 (KJV)Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
- 14:8 — Matthew 7:8 (KJV)For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
- 14:9 — Matthew 7:9 (KJV)Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
- 14:11 — Matthew 7:11 (KJV)If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
- 14:12 — Matthew 7:12 (KJV)Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
- 14:13 — Matthew 7:13 (KJV)Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
- 14:14 — Matthew 7:14 (KJV)Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
- 14:15 — Matthew 7:15 (KJV)Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
- 14:16 — Matthew 7:16 (KJV)Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
- 14:17 — Matthew 7:17 (KJV)Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
- 14:18 — Matthew 7:18 (KJV)A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
- 14:19 — Matthew 7:19 (KJV)Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
- 14:21 — Matthew 7:21 (KJV)Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
- 14:22 — Matthew 7:22 (KJV)Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
- 14:23 — Matthew 7:23 (KJV)And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
- 14:24 — Matthew 7:24 (KJV)Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
- 14:25 — Matthew 7:25 (KJV)And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
- 14:26 — Matthew 7:26 (KJV)And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
- 14:27 — Matthew 7:27 (KJV)And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.