1"Do not judge, so that you will not be judged."
2"For you will be judged in the same way that you judge others. The measure you use for others will be used for you."
3"Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but take no notice of the plank in your own eye?"
4"Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is a plank in your own eye?"
5"You hypocrite! First take the plank out of your own eye. Then you will see clearly enough to take the speck out of your brother's eye."
6"Do not give what is holy to the dogs. Do not throw your pearls in front of pigs. If you do, they will trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces."
7"Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened to you."
8"For everyone who asks receives. The one who seeks finds. And to the one who knocks, the door will be opened."
9"If your son asks you for bread, which of you would give him a stone?"
10"Or if he asks for a fish, would you give him a snake?"
11"So if you, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him?"
12"So then, whatever you would like people to do for you, do the same for them. This is what the law and the prophets say."
13"Go in through the narrow gate. The gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to destruction, and many people go in that way."
14"But the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and only a few people find it."
15"Beware of false prophets. They come to you dressed like sheep, but inside they are hungry wolves."
16"You will know them by their fruit. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?"
17"In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit."
18"A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit."
19"Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire."
20"So you will know them by their fruit."
21"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven. Only the one who does what my Father in heaven wants."
22"On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out devils in your name? Did we not do many wonderful works in your name?'"
23"Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Go away from me, you who do evil.'"
24"So everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock."
25"The rain came down, the floods rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house. But it did not fall, because it was built on rock."
26"And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand."
27"The rain came down, the floods rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house. And it fell, and it was a great fall."
28When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching.
29For he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes did.