1 “ Do not say what is wrong in other people’s lives. Then other people will not say what is wrong in your life.

`Judge not, that ye may not be judged,

2 Y ou will be guilty of the same things you find in others. When you say what is wrong in others, your words will be used to say what is wrong in you.

for in what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged, and in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you.

3 W hy do you look at the small piece of wood in your brother’s eye, and do not see the big piece of wood in your own eye?

`And why dost thou behold the mote that in thy brother's eye, and the beam that in thine own eye dost not consider?

4 H ow can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take that small piece of wood out of your eye,’ when there is a big piece of wood in your own eye?

or, how wilt thou say to thy brother, Suffer I may cast out the mote from thine eye, and lo, the beam in thine own eye?

5 Y ou who pretend to be someone you are not, first take the big piece of wood out of your own eye. Then you can see better to take the small piece of wood out of your brother’s eye.

Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

6 “ Do not give that which belongs to God to dogs. Do not throw your pearls in front of pigs. They will break them under their feet. Then they will turn and tear you to pieces. Jesus Teaches about Prayer

`Ye may not give that which is to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned -- may rend you.

7 “ Ask, and what you are asking for will be given to you. Look, and what you are looking for you will find. Knock, and the door you are knocking on will be opened to you.

`Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

8 E veryone who asks receives what he asks for. Everyone who looks finds what he is looking for. Everyone who knocks has the door opened to him.

for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

9 W hat man among you would give his son a stone if he should ask for bread?

`Or what man is of you, of whom, if his son may ask a loaf -- a stone will he present to him?

10 O r if he asks for a fish, would he give him a snake?

and if a fish he may ask -- a serpent will he present to him?

11 Y ou are bad and you know how to give good things to your children. How much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him? Jesus Teaches about Others

if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who in the heavens give good things to those asking him?

12 “ Do for other people whatever you would like to have them do for you. This is what the Jewish Law and the early preachers said. Jesus Teaches about Two Roads

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

13 “ Go in through the narrow door. The door is wide and the road is easy that leads to hell. Many people are going through that door.

`Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it;

14 B ut the door is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life that lasts forever. Few people are finding it. Jesus Teaches about False Teachers

how strait the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those finding it!

15 “ Watch out for false teachers. They come to you dressed as if they were sheep. On the inside they are hungry wolves.

`But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.

16 Y ou will know them by their fruit. Do men pick grapes from thorns? Do men pick figs from thistles?

From their fruits ye shall know them; do gather from thorns grapes? or from thistles figs?

17 I t is true, every good tree has good fruit. Every bad tree has bad fruit.

so every good tree doth yield good fruits, but the bad tree doth yield evil fruits.

18 A good tree cannot have bad fruit. A bad tree cannot have good fruit.

A good tree is not able to yield evil fruits, nor a bad tree to yield good fruits.

19 E very tree that does not have good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Every tree not yielding good fruit is cut down and is cast to fire:

20 S o you will know them by their fruit.

therefore from their fruits ye shall know them.

21 N ot everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will go into the holy nation of heaven. The one who does the things My Father in heaven wants him to do will go into the holy nation of heaven.

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

22 M any people will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not preach in Your Name? Did we not put out demons in Your Name? Did we not do many powerful works in Your Name?’

Many will say to me in that day, Lord, lord, have we not in thy name prophesied? and in thy name cast out demons? and in thy name done many mighty things?

23 T hen I will say to them in plain words, ‘I never knew you. Go away from Me, you who do wrong!’ Jesus Teaches about Houses Built on Rock or Sand

and then I will acknowledge to them, that -- I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.

24 “ Whoever hears these words of Mine and does them, will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.

`Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock;

25 T he rain came down. The water came up. The wind blew and hit the house. The house did not fall because it was built on rock.

and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell not, for it had been founded on the rock.

26 W hoever hears these words of Mine and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

`And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand;

27 T he rain came down. The water came up. The wind blew and hit the house. The house fell and broke apart.”

and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'

28 T hen Jesus finished talking. The people were surprised and wondered about His teaching.

And it came to pass, when Jesus ended these words, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,

29 H e was teaching them as One Who has the right and the power to teach. He did not teach as the teachers of the Law.

for he was teaching them as having authority, and not as the scribes.