7:1 “Do not ①judge, so that you will not be judged.
▷ ①I.e., make a habit of judging or have a judgmental attitude
7:2 For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and ①by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.
▷ ①Lit by which measure you measure
7:3 Why do you look at the ①speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
▷ ①Or splinter
7:4 Or how ①can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the ②speck out of your eye,’ and look, the log is in your own eye?
▷ ①Lit will ②Or splinter
7:5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the ①speck out of your brother’s eye!
▷ ①Or splinter
7:6 “Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
7:7 “ ①Ask, and it will be given to you; ②seek, and you will find; ③knock, and it will be opened to you.
▷ ①Or Keep asking ②Or keep seeking ③Or keep knocking
7:8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
7:9 Or what person is there among you ①who, when his son asks for a loaf of bread, ②will give him a stone?
▷ ①Lit whom his son will ask ②Lit he will not give him a stone, will he?
7:10 Or ①if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?
▷ ①Lit also will ask
7:11 So if you, despite being ①evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
▷ ①I.e., as sinful mankind
7:12 “In everything, therefore, ①treat people the same way you want ②them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
▷ ①Lit you, too, do so for them ②Lit people
7:13 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.
7:14 For the gate is narrow and the way is constricted that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
7:15 “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
7:16 You will ①know them by their fruits. ②Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from thistles, are they?
▷ ①Or recognize ②Lit They do not gather
7:17 So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.
7:18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
7:19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
7:20 So then, you will ①know them by their fruits.
▷ ①Or recognize
7:21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is 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 ①miracles?’
▷ ①Or works of power
7:23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; LEAVE ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’
7:24 “Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine, and ①acts on them, will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
▷ ①Lit does them
7:25 And the rain fell and the ①floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.
▷ ①Lit rivers
7:26 And everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does not ①act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
▷ ①Lit do them
7:27 And the rain fell and the ①floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and its collapse was great.”
▷ ①Lit rivers
7:28 ①When Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were amazed at His teaching;
▷ ①Lit And it happened when
7:29 for He was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.