1 Don't condemn lest you be condemned.
2 For with whatever condemnation you condemn others, you shall be condemned, and with whatever standard you measure out to others, it shall be measured to you again.
3 And why do you look at the twig that is in your brother's or sister's eye but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?
4 Or how will you say to your brother or sister, 'Let me pull the twig out of your eye when a beam is in your own eye?
5 You hypocrite, first extract the beam out of your own eye, and then you shall see clearly to extract the twig out of your brother's or sister's eye.
6 Don't give that which is holy to the dogs.  Don't throw your pearls before swine, or they may trample them under their feet and turn again and tear you to pieces.
7 Ask and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you:
8 For everyone who asks receives, and whoever seeks finds, and to whoever knocks, it shall be opened. *
9 Or what person is there of you whom, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?
11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father Who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him? *
12 Therefore whatever you desire that people would do for you, do you also the same for them, for this is the law and the prophets.
13 Enter in at the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads into destruction, and there are many who go in there:
14 Because narrow is the gate and contracted is the way that leads into genuine and absolute fullness of 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 predatory wolves.
16 You shall know them by their fruits.  Do men gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?
17 In this way every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth bad fruit.  A bad tree cannot produce good fruit.
19 Every tree that doesn't produce good fruit is chopped down and thrown into the fire.
20 Therefore it is by their fruits that you shall know them. *
21 Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but whoever does the will of My Father Who is in Heaven.
22 In that day, many will say to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' haven't we prophesied in Your Name? And cast out devils in Your Name? And done many wonderful works in Your Name?
23 And then I will declare openly to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who work lawlessness. *
24 Therefore whoever hears these utterances of Mine, and does them, I will compare him to a wise man who built his house on a rock,
25 and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house, and it didn't fall, for it's foundation was on a rock.
26 And everyone who hears these utterances of Mine, and doesn't do them shall be compared to a foolish man who built his house on the sand,
27 and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it." *
28 When Jesus had ended these utterances, the people were astonished at His doctrine,
29 for He taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes.