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📚“Do not judge,✭ so that you will not be judged.2 📚“For with the judgment you judge, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.
3 📚✭“And why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye’, and, look, a plank is in your own eye? 5 📚You hypocrite! First take the plank out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
6 📚✭“Do not give what is holy to the dogs, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, so that they do not trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.
He gives further instruction on prayer
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, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
9 📚“Or which one of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 📚If you then, being 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?
The King gives “the golden rule”
12 📚✭Therefore, in everything, whatever you want people to do to you, do the same to them. For this is the Law and the Prophets.
The King speaks of broad and narrow ways
13 📚✭“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there are who go in through it. 14 📚Because narrow is the gate, and strait✭ is the way that leads to life, and few there are who find it.
15 📚✭“Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 📚You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? 17 📚In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a rotten tree produces bad fruit. 18 📚A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a rotten tree produce good fruit. 19 📚Every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 📚Therefore, you will know them by their fruits.
21 📚“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord✭’, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 📚Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons, and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 📚And then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you evildoers.’
24 📚✭“Therefore, I will compare everyone who hears these words of mine, and does them, to a wise man who built his house on a rock. 25 📚And the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, for it had its foundation on a rock. 26 📚And everyone who hears these sayings of mine, and does not do them, will be compared to a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 📚And the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house. And it fell, and great was its fall”.