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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Matthew 7 Douay-Rheims Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/matthew/7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/matthew/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">DRB</a> > Matthew 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../matthew/6.htm" title="Matthew 6">◄</a> Matthew 7 <a href="../matthew/8.htm" title="Matthew 8">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Douay-Rheims Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><a name="1" id="1"></a><p class="hdg">Do Not Judge<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../luke/6.htm#37">Luke 6:37-42</a>; <a href="../romans/14.htm">Romans 14:1-12</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Judge not, that you may not be judged. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye; and seest not the beam that is in thy own eye? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Or how sayest thou to thy brother: Let me cast the mote out of thy eye; and behold a beam is in thy own eye? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Give not that which is holy to dogs; neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turning upon you, they tear you.</p> <a name="7" id="7"></a><p class="hdg">Ask, Seek, Knock<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../luke/11.htm#5">Luke 11:5-13</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Or what man is there among you, of whom if his son shall ask bread, will he reach him a stone? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Or if he shall ask him a fish, will he reach him a serpent? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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 them that ask him?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>All things therefore whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you also to them. For this is the law and the prophets.</p> <a name="13" id="13"></a><p class="hdg">The Narrow Gate<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../luke/13.htm#22">Luke 13:22-30</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!</p> <a name="15" id="15"></a><p class="hdg">A Tree and its Fruit<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../matthew/12.htm#33">Matthew 12:33-37</a>; <a href="../luke/6.htm#43">Luke 6:43-45</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name, and done many miracles in thy name? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.</p> <a name="24" id="24"></a><p class="hdg">The House on the Rock<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../luke/6.htm#46">Luke 6:46-49</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock, <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a rock. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And every one that heareth these my words and doth them not, shall be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand, <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof.</p> <p class="hdg">The Authority of Jesus</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And it came to pass when Jesus had fully ended these words, the people were in admiration at his doctrine. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/matthew/7-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>For he was teaching them as one having power, and not as the scribes and Pharisees.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Douay Rheims Version - Bishop Challoner Revision<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../matthew/6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Matthew 6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Matthew 6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../matthew/8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Matthew 8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Matthew 8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>