“Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. 2For with the judgment
you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the
measure you get. 3Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye,
but do not notice the log in your own eye? 4Or how can you say to
your neighbor, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while the log
is in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own
eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your
neighbor’s eye. 6
“Do not give what is holy to dogs; and do not throw
your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under foot and
turn and maul you. 7
“Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you
will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. 8For everyone
who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for
everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. 9
Is there anyone
among you who, if your child asks for bread, will give a stone? 10Or if
the child asks for a fish, will give a snake? 11If you then, who are evil,
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! 12“In
everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is
the law and the prophets. 13“Enter through the narrow gate; for the
gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there
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are many who take it. 14For the gate is narrow and the road is hard
that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
24“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will
be like a wise man who built his house on rock. 25The rain fell, the
floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not
fall, because it had been founded on rock. 26And everyone who hears
these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish
man who built his house on sand. 27The rain fell, and the floods came,
and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great
was its fall!” 28Now when Jesus had finished saying these things, the
crowds were astounded at his teaching, 29for he taught them as one
having authority, and not as their scribes.