MATTHEW 7 1-20

  🍃🕊️01/21 - GospeL Verses 🍃🕊️

(Jesus continues while sitting at the side of a mountain, likely a summary of a few such times.) 1 - “Judge not - so you - will not be judged. 2 For how you judge others, is how you will be judged, and with the measure you use, is how it will be measured back to you. 3 Why do you see the speck in your brother or sister’s eye, but don’t notice the log that’s in your eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother or sister, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye’ - when there is the log in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the tiny speck out of your brother's eye.

     6 Don’t try to give to the irreverent what is holy, and don’t throw pearls before them, lest they trample them underfoot, and turn to trample you.

     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 the one who seeks, finds. And to the one who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or which of you, if their child asks for bread, will give them a stone? 10 Or if they ask for a fish, will give them a serpent? 11 If you then, who are evil [ponéros - wicked, bad, malicious, evil] {not good, imperfect} know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good [agathos - good, beneficial] things to those who ask him!

     12 So treat others how you would like others to treat you! This is - the Law - and the Prophets. {Sum and substance? and the “end-aim”..}

     13 Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way easy that leads to destruction [apóleia - ruin, loss, destruction] and many are therein. 14 For small is the gate and narrow and troublesome the way to enduring life, and those who find it are few. 15 So beware of false prophets, who come in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You’ll recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorn bushes? Or figs from thistles? 17 A healthy tree bears good fruit, but an unhealthy tree bears fruit that is not good. 18 A healthy tree can’t bear noxious fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that doesn’t bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. {Will go through gehenna crash, whether collective, or personal.} 20 And so you can recognize them” {and doctrines} “by the fruit they produce and display.”

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Tomorrows verses - Matthew 7:21-29

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