Lexham English Bible

Matthew 7:5-21 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

5. Hypocrite! First remove the beam of wood from your own eye and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye!

6. “Do not give what is holy to dogs, or throw your pearls in front of pigs, lest they trample them with their feet, and turn around and tear you to pieces.

7. “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened for you.

8. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

9. Or what man is there among you, if his son will ask him for bread, will give him a stone?

10. Or also if he will ask for a fish, will give him a snake?

11. Therefore if you, although 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 those who ask him?

12. Therefore in all things, whatever you want that people should do to you, thus also you do to them. For this is the law and the prophets.

13. “Enter through the narrow gate, because broad is the gate and spacious is the road that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it,

14. because narrow is the gate and constricted is the road that leads to life, and there are few who find it!

15. “Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inside are ravenous wolves.

16. You will recognize them by their fruits: they do not gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles, do they?

17. In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit.

18. A good tree is not able to produce bad fruit, nor a bad tree to produce good fruit.

19. Every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

20. As a result, you will recognize them by their fruits.

21. “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.