![]() ![]() He may have taken the saying as applying to a Christian dealing with an obstinately impenitent fellow Christian ( Mt 18:17). In the light of Mt 28:19 that can hardly be Matthew’s meaning. This saying may originally have derived from a Jewish Christian community opposed to preaching the gospel ( what is holy, pearls) to Gentiles. * Dogs and swine were Jewish terms of contempt for Gentiles. * Hypocrite: the designation previously given to the scribes and Pharisees is here given to the Christian disciple who is concerned with the faults of another and ignores his own more serious offenses. * This is not a prohibition against recognizing the faults of others, which would be hardly compatible with Mt 7:5, 6 but against passing judgment in a spirit of arrogance, forgetful of one’s own faults. The governing thought is the correspondence between conduct toward one’s fellows and God’s conduct toward the one so acting. * In Mt 7:1 Matthew returns to the basic traditional material of the sermon ( Lk 6:37– 38, 41– 42). And it collapsed and was completely ruined.”Ģ8 * When Jesus finished these words, the crowds were astonished at his teaching,Ģ9 * t for he taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes. s But it did not collapse it had been set solidly on rock.Ģ6And everyone who listens to these words of mine but does not act on them will be like a fool who built his house on sand.Ģ7The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. ![]() r 25The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. 24 * “Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. n 22Many will say to me on that day, o ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?’ p 23Then I will declare to them solemnly, ‘I never knew you. 21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, * but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?ġ7Just so, every good tree bears good fruit, and a rotten tree bears bad fruit.ġ8A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a rotten tree bear good fruit.ġ9Every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.Ģ0So by their fruits you will know them. k 16 l By their fruits you will know them. * 15“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but underneath are ravenous wolves. And those who find it are few.įalse Prophets. j 14How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. 13 * “Enter through the narrow gate * for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many. 12 * “Do to others whatever you would have them do to you. g 9Which one of you would hand his son a stone when he asks for a loaf of bread, * 10or a snake when he asks for a fish?ġ1If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him. f 8For everyone who asks, receives and the one who seeks, finds and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 7 e “Ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find knock and the door will be opened to you. 6“Do not give what is holy to dogs, * or throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them underfoot, and turn and tear you to pieces. c 3Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?ĤHow can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove that splinter from your eye,’ while the wooden beam is in your eye?ĥYou hypocrite, * remove the wooden beam from your eye first then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye. b 2For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you. 1 * a “Stop judging, * that you may not be judged.
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