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1 Do not judge, so that you will not be judged.
2 For with the judgment you judge, you will be judged, and with the measure that you measure, it will be measured out to you.
3 But why do you look at the tiny piece of straw that is in the eye of your brother, but you do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take out the piece of straw from your eye,’ while behold, the log is in your own eye?
5 You hypocrite! First take out the log from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the piece of straw from the eye of your brother.
6 Do not give what is holy to the dogs, and do not throw your pearls in front of the hogs. Otherwise they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.
7 Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you.
8 For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the person who knocks, it will be opened.
9 Or what man is there among you, of whom his son will ask for a loaf of bread, but he will give him a stone?
10 Or he will also ask for a fish, but he will give him a snake?
11 Therefore, if you who are 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?
12 In everything, therefore, whatever you would want that people would do to you, you should also do the same to them, for this is the law and the prophets.
13 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many people who go through it.
14 For the gate is narrow and the way is difficult that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
15 Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’ s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
16 By their fruits you will know them. People do not gather grapes from a thornbush or figs from thistles, do they?
17 In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but the bad tree produces bad fruit.
18 A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit.
19 Every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
20 So then, you will recognize them by their fruits.
21 Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but only those who do the will of my Father who is in heaven.
22 Many people will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons, and in your name do many mighty deeds?’
23 Then will I openly declare to them, ‘I never knew you! Get away from me, you who practice evil!’
24 Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and obeys them will be like a wise man who built his house upon a rock.
25 The rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall down, for it was built on the rock.
26 But everyone who hears these words of mind and does not obey them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand.
27 The rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and struck that house, and it fell, and its destruction was complete.”
28 It came about that when Jesus finished speaking these words, the crowds were astonished by his teaching,
29 for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.
The Gospel of Matthew