Matthew 7

1“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.Cross-references: Isa 66:5 · Ezek 16:52 · Matt 7:2 · Matt 7:5 · Luke 6:37 · Luke 6:41 · +6 more

2For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.Cross-references: Judg 1:7 · Ps 18:25 · Ps 137:7 · Jer 51:24 · Obad 1:15 · Mark 4:24 · +5 more

3Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?Cross-references: 2Sam 12:5 · 2Chr 28:9 · Ps 50:16 · Luke 6:41 · Luke 18:11 · John 8:7 · +1 more

4Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ and behold, the beam is in your own eye?

5You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye.Cross-references: Ps 51:9 · Matt 22:18 · Matt 23:13 · Luke 4:23 · Luke 6:42 · Luke 12:56 · +2 more

6“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.Cross-references: Prov 9:7 · Prov 11:22 · Prov 23:9 · Prov 26:11 · Matt 10:14 · Matt 15:26 · +9 more

7“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.Cross-references: 1Ki 3:5 · Ps 10:4 · Ps 10:17 · Ps 27:8 · Ps 50:15 · Ps 69:32 · +33 more

8For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.Cross-references: 2Chr 33:1 · 2Chr 33:19 · Ps 81:10 · Ps 81:16 · Matt 15:22 · Luke 23:42 · +3 more

9Or who is there among you who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?Cross-references: Luke 11:11

10Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?

11If you then, being evil, 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!Cross-references: Gen 6:5 · Gen 8:21 · Ex 34:6 · 2Sam 7:19 · Job 15:16 · Ps 84:11 · +26 more

12Therefore, whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.Cross-references: Lev 19:18 · Isa 1:17 · Jer 7:5 · Ezek 18:7 · Ezek 18:21 · Amos 5:14 · +11 more

13“Enter in by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter in by it.Cross-references: Gen 6:5 · Gen 6:12 · Ps 14:2 · Prov 7:27 · Prov 9:6 · Prov 16:25 · +30 more

14How narrow is the gate and the way is restricted that leads to life! There are few who find it.Cross-references: Prov 4:26 · Prov 8:20 · Isa 30:21 · Isa 35:8 · Isa 57:14 · Jer 6:16 · +18 more

15“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.Cross-references: Deut 13:1 · Isa 9:15 · Isa 56:10 · Jer 14:14 · Jer 23:13 · Jer 28:15 · +44 more

16By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?Cross-references: Matt 7:20 · Matt 12:33 · Luke 6:43 · James 3:12 · 2Pet 2:10 · Jude 1:10

17Even so, every good tree produces good fruit, but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.Cross-references: Ps 1:3 · Ps 92:13 · Isa 5:3 · Isa 61:3 · Jer 11:19 · Jer 17:8 · +8 more

18A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.Cross-references: Gal 5:17 · 1John 3:9

19Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.Cross-references: Isa 5:5 · Isa 27:11 · Ezek 15:2 · Matt 3:10 · Matt 21:19 · Luke 3:9 · +4 more

20Therefore by their fruits you will know them.Cross-references: Matt 7:16 · Acts 5:38

21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.Cross-references: Isa 48:1 · Hos 8:2 · Matt 10:32 · Matt 12:50 · Matt 16:17 · Matt 18:3 · +42 more

22Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’Cross-references: Num 24:4 · Num 31:8 · 1Ki 22:11 · Isa 2:11 · Isa 2:17 · Jer 23:13 · +17 more

23Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’Cross-references: Ps 5:5 · Ps 6:8 · Matt 25:12 · Matt 25:41 · Luke 13:25 · Luke 13:27 · +4 more

24“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock.Cross-references: Job 28:28 · Ps 111:10 · Ps 119:99 · Ps 119:130 · Prov 10:8 · Prov 14:8 · +25 more

25The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.Cross-references: Ps 92:13 · Ps 125:1 · Ezek 13:11 · Mal 3:3 · Matt 16:18 · Acts 14:22 · +7 more

26Everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:30 · Prov 14:1 · Jer 8:9 · Luke 6:49 · James 2:20

27The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell—and its fall was great.”Cross-references: Ezek 13:10 · Matt 12:43 · Matt 13:19 · 1Cor 3:13 · Heb 10:26 · 2Pet 2:20

28When Jesus had finished saying these things, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,Cross-references: Ps 45:2 · Matt 11:1 · Matt 13:53 · Matt 19:1 · Matt 22:33 · Matt 26:1 · +8 more

29for he taught them with authority, and not like the scribes.Cross-references: Deut 18:18 · Eccl 8:4 · Isa 50:4 · Jer 23:28 · Mic 3:8 · Matt 5:20 · +15 more