마태복음 7

Judging others

¹Stop passing judgment on others, so that you will not be judged. ²The way you judge others is the way you will be judged, and the measure you use for them will be used for you. ³Why do you stare at the splinter in the eye of a brother or sister, and never notice the beam of wood in your own? ⁴How can you say to a brother or sister, ‘Let me take that splinter out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a beam in your own? ⁵You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye. Then you will see clearly enough to take the splinter out of the eye of a brother or sister.

⁶Do not give holy things to dogs, and do not throw your pearls to pigs. They may trample them underfoot and then turn on you and tear you apart.^a

Ask, seek, knock

⁷Keep asking, and you will receive. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened for you. ⁸For everyone who asks receives, whoever seeks finds, and the door is opened to whoever knocks. ⁹Would any of you give your child a stone when they asked for bread? ¹⁰Or give them a snake when they asked for a fish? ¹¹So if you, sinful as you are, 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!

¹²So in everything, treat others the way you would want them to treat you, for this is what the law and the prophets are about.

The narrow gate

¹³Go in through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to destruction is wide and the road to it is easy, and many go in that way. ¹⁴But the gate that leads to life is narrow and the road is hard, and only a few find it.

Known by their fruit

¹⁵Watch out for false prophets. They come to you looking like sheep, but underneath they are hungry wolves. ¹⁶You will know them by what their lives produce. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? ¹⁷In the same way, every healthy tree bears good fruit, and a diseased tree bears bad fruit. ¹⁸A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a diseased tree cannot bear good fruit. ¹⁹Any tree that fails to bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ²⁰So you will know them by what their lives produce.

I never knew you

²¹Not everyone who calls me ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only those who do what my Father in heaven wants. ²²On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, drive out demons in your name, and do many miracles in your name?’ ²³And then I will say to them openly, ‘I never knew you. Go away from me, you who break God’s law.’

Two builders

²⁴So anyone who listens to what I have said here and acts on it will be like a sensible person who built a house on solid rock. ²⁵The rain poured down, the floods rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house. But it did not fall, because its foundation was on rock. ²⁶And anyone who listens to what I have said here and does not act on it will be like a foolish person who built a house on sand. ²⁷The rain poured down, the floods rose, and the winds blew and battered that house, and it fell. And what a fall it was!”

Teaching with authority

²⁸When Jesus finished these words, the crowds were amazed at his teaching. ²⁹He taught them like someone with authority of his own, not like their scribes.