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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 Literal Standard Version</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="../">LSV</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">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/matthew/7-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Do not judge, that you may not be judged, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>for in what judgment you judge, you will be judged, and in what measure you measure, it will be measured to you. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And why do you behold the speck that [is] in your brother’s eye, and do not consider the beam that [is] in your own eye? <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Or, how will you say to your brother, Permit [that] I may cast out the speck from your eye, and behold, the beam [is] in your own eye? <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to cast out the speck out of your brother’s eye.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You may not give that which is [holy] to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the pigs, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned—may tear you apart.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you; <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>for everyone who is asking receives, and he who is seeking finds, and to him who is knocking it will 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, of whom, if his son may ask [for] a loaf—a stone will he present to him? <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And if he may ask [for] a fish—a serpent will he present to him? <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>If, therefore, you being evil, have known to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who [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>All things, therefore, whatever you may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Go in through the narrow gate, because wide [is] the gate and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it; <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>how narrow [is] the gate and compressed the way that is leading to life, and few are those finding it!<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But take heed of the false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing, and inwardly are ravenous wolves. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>From their fruits you will know them; do [men] gather grapes from thorns? Or figs from thistles? <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So every good tree yields good fruits, but the bad tree yields evil fruits. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>A good tree is not able to yield evil fruits, nor a bad tree to yield good fruits. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Every tree not yielding good fruit is cut down and is cast into fire: <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>therefore from their fruits you will know them.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Not everyone who is saying to Me, Lord, Lord, will come into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who is 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 Your Name? And in Your Name cast out demons? And in Your Name done many mighty things? <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And then I will acknowledge to them, that—I never knew you, depart from Me you who are working lawlessness.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on 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 the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And everyone who is hearing these words of Mine, and is not doing them, will be likened to a foolish man who built his house on the sand; <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>and the rain descended, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.”<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these words, the multitudes were astonished at His teaching, <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/7-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>for He was teaching them as having authority, and not as the scribes.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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