Matthew 7:1–14

DO NOT JUDGE

7“Do not judge, so that you won’t be judged.^{s 2}For you will be judged by the same standard with which you judge others, and you will be measured by the same measure you use.^{t 3}Why do you look at the splinter in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the beam of wood in your own eye?^{u 4}Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the splinter out of your eye,’ and look, there’s a beam of wood in your own eye? ⁵Hypocrite! First take the beam of wood out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother’s eye. ⁶Don’t give what is holy to dogs or toss your pearls before pigs,^v or they will trample them under their feet, turn, and tear you to pieces.

ASK, SEARCH, KNOCK

⁷“Ask,^w and it will be given to you.^x Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door^C will be opened to you. ⁸For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds,^y and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. ⁹Who among you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? ¹⁰Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? ¹¹If you then, who are evil,^z 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. ¹²Therefore, whatever you want others to do for you, do also the same for them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.^aa

ENTERING THE KINGDOM

¹³“Enter through the narrow gate.^a For the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction,^b and there are many who go through it. ¹⁴How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it.