1“Judge not, that you be not judged. (路6:37; 路6:41; 羅14:13; 林前4:5; 雅5:9)2For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. (士1:7; 可4:24; 羅2:1; 羅2:3; 羅14:10; 雅2:13; 雅4:11)3Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? (约8:7)4Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye?5You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.6“Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you. (箴9:7; 箴23:9; 太13:46; 太15:26; 腓3:2; 启22:15)
Ask, and It Will Be Given
7“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. (代上28:9; 代下15:2; 箴8:17; 赛55:6; 耶29:13; 太18:19; 太21:22; 可11:24; 路11:9; 约14:13; 约15:7; 约15:16; 约16:23; 雅1:5; 雅1:17; 约一3:22; 约一5:14; 启3:20)8For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.9Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? (太4:3)10Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?11If you then, who 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 those who ask him! (创6:5; 创8:21; 太7:7; 太12:34)
The Golden Rule
12“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. (太22:40; 路6:31)13“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy[1] that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. (路13:24)14For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. (诗16:11; 太18:8; 路13:23; 约14:6)
A Tree and Its Fruit
15“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. (申13:1; 耶14:14; 耶23:16; 结22:27; 弥3:5; 太24:11; 太24:24; 可13:22; 路6:26; 约10:12; 徒13:6; 徒20:29; 彼后2:1; 约一4:1)16You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? (路6:43; 雅2:18)17So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. (太12:33)18A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. (太3:10)20Thus you will recognize them by their fruits. (太7:16)
I Never Knew You
21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. (何8:2; 太12:50; 路6:46; 约3:3; 约3:5; 羅2:13; 雅1:22)22On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ (民24:4; 玛3:17; 太25:11; 可9:38; 路13:25; 约11:51; 林前13:2)23And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’ (诗5:5; 诗6:8; 诗101:4; 太7:22; 太10:33; 太13:41; 太25:41)
Build Your House on the Rock
24“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. (结13:10; 太25:2; 路6:47)25And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.26And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. (太7:24)27And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
The Authority of Jesus
28And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, (太13:54; 太22:33; 可1:22; 可6:2; 可11:18; 路4:32; 徒13:12)29for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes. (约7:46)