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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"><title>Matthew 7 Smith's Literal Translation</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="../topmenuchap/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">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/matthew/7-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Judging Others<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../luke/6.htm#37">Luke 6:37–42</a>; <a href ="../romans/14.htm">Romans 14:1–12</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Judge not, that ye be not judged. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye measure, it shall be repaid to you. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And why seest thou the mote which is in thy brother's eye, and the beam in thine eye thou observest not? <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let go I will cast out the mote from thine eye: and behold a beam in thine eye. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam from thine eye, and thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote from thy brother's eye.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Ye should not give the holy thing to dogs neither should ye cast your pearls before swine, lest they tread them down with their feet, and having turned, should rend you.<p> <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">Ask, Seek, Knock<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../luke/11.htm#5">Luke 11:5–13</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For everyone asking, receives and he seeking, finds; and to him knocking shall be opened. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Or what man is of you, which, if his son ask bread, he will not give him a stone? <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And if he ask a fish, he will not give him a serpent? <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>If ye, therefore, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children how much more will your Father which is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore all whatever ye would that men should do to you, so also do ye to them; for this is the law and the prophets.<p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">The Narrow Gate<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../luke/13.htm#22">Luke 13:22–30</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Enter ye in through the strait gate, for broad the gate and spacious the way leading to destruction, and many are they coming in through it. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For strait the gate and afflicted the way leading into life, and few are they finding it.<p> <A name="16"></a><p class="hdg">A Tree and Its Fruit<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../luke/6.htm#43">Luke 6:43–45</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And hold from false prophets which come in to you in sheep's dresses, but within they are rapacious wolves. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>By their fruits shall ye know them. Far from it, do they gather grapes from thorns, or figs from caltrops. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So every good tree makes good fruits; but the rotten tree makes evil fruits. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>A good tree cannot make evil fruits, nor a rotten tree make good fruits. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Every tree not making good fruit is cut off, and cast into fire. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Wherefore from their fruits shall ye know them.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Not every one saying to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens; but he doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name have we cast out evil spirits, and in thy name done many powers? <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And then shall I confess to them that I never knew you. Go away from me, ye working iniquity.<p> <A name="25"></a><p class="hdg">The House on the Rock<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../luke/6.htm#46">Luke 6:46–49</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Therefore, every one which hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a discerning man which built his house upon the rock. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And the rain descended, and rivers came, and winds blew, and fell upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded upon the rock. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And every one hearing these my words and doing them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, which built his house upon sand. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And the rain descended, and rivers came, and winds blew and struck upon that house, and it fell, and great was its fall.<p> <A name="29"></a><p class="hdg">The Authority of Jesus<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And it was when Jesus finished these words, the crowds were struck with amazement at his teaching: <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>For he was teaching them as having power, and not as the scribes.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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