1 Stop judging, so that you will not be judged.
2 For by the standard of judgment you apply you will be judged, and by the measure you measure with, it will be measured to you in return.
3 And why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye but take no notice of the beam in your own eye?
4 Or how will you say to your brother, 'Allow me to pull the splinter out of your eye,' when look, there is a beam in your own eye?
5 Hypocrite, first pull the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to pull the splinter out of your brother's eye.
6 Do not give the holy thing to the dogs, and do not cast your pearls in front of the pigs, or they may trample them with their feet and then turn and tear you apart.
7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
8 For everyone who asks receives, whoever seeks finds, and to whoever knocks it will be opened.
9 Or is there anyone among you who, when his son asks him for bread, will hand him a stone?
10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he hand him a snake?
11 So if you, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to the ones who ask him!
12 Everything, then, that you would want people to do for you, you also do the same for them; for this is the Law and the Prophets.
13 Go in through the narrow gate. For the gate that leads to destruction is wide and the road spacious, and many are the people who go in through it.
14 Because narrow is the gate and constricted the road that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
15 Watch out for false prophets, who come to you dressed as sheep but on the inside are savage wolves.
16 By their fruits you will know them well. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles?
17 In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, while the rotten tree produces bad fruit.
18 A good tree is not able to produce bad fruit, nor is a rotten tree able to produce good fruit.
19 Every tree not producing good fruit is being cut down and thrown into the fire.
20 So then, it is by their fruits that you will know them well.
21 Not all who say to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but rather whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, was it not in your name that we prophesied, and in your name that we drove out demons, and in your name that we performed many miracles?'
23 Then I will state plainly to them, 'I never knew you. Get away from me, you who work lawlessness.'
24 So everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice, I will liken him to a sensible man who built his house upon the rock.
25 The rain poured down, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and fell upon that house; yet it did not collapse, for its foundation had been laid on the rock.
26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice will be compared to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand.
27 The rain poured down, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and struck that house, and it collapsed, and its collapse was great."
28 And it happened that when Jesus had brought these words to an end, the crowds were amazed at his teaching,
29 for he was teaching them as one who has authority, and not in the way the scribes did.