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| | Mat 7:1 | "Do not judge, or you too will be judged.
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| | Mat 7:2 | For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
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| | Mat 7:3 | "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
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| | Mat 7:4 | How can you say to your brother, `Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?
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| | Mat 7:5 | You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
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| | Mat 7:6 | "Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.
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| | Mat 7:7 | "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
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| | Mat 7:8 | For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
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| | Mat 7:9 | "Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
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| | Mat 7:10 | Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
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| | Mat 7:11 | If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
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| | Mat 7:12 | So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
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| | Mat 7:13 | "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
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| | Mat 7:14 | But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
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| | Mat 7:15 | "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
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| | Mat 7:16 | By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
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| | Mat 7:17 | Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
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| | Mat 7:18 | A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
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| | Mat 7:19 | Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
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| | Mat 7:20 | Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
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| | Mat 7:21 | "Not everyone who says to me, `Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
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| | Mat 7:22 | Many will say to me on that day, `Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?'
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| | Mat 7:23 | Then I will tell them plainly, `I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'
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| | Mat 7:24 | "Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
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| | Mat 7:25 | The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.
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| | Mat 7:26 | But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
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| | Mat 7:27 | The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."
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| | Mat 7:28 | When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching,
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| | Mat 7:29 | because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.
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