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   42 How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck   
   that is in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the beam   
   that is in your own eye? You hypocrite!   
   First remove the beam from your own eye,   
   and then you will see clearly to remove the speck   
   that is in your brother's eye.   
      
   [37] Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall   
   not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:   
   [38] Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and   
   shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with   
   the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.   
   [39] And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall   
   they not both fall into the ditch?   
   [40] The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect   
   shall be as his master.   
   [41] And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but   
   perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?   
   [42] Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the   
   mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is   
   in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own   
   eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy   
   brother's eye.   
      
   Matthew 7:7-20   
      
   Ask, Seek, Knock   
   Lk 11:9-13   
      
   7 (Mt 21:22; Mk 11:24) "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 he who seeks finds,   
   and to him who knocks, it will be opened.   
   9 "What man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread,   
   will give him a stone?   
   10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a snake?   
   11 (Ge 6:5; 8:21) 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 those who ask Him!   
   12 (Lk 6:31; Ro 13:8-10; Lev 19:18) Therefore, everything you would   
   like men to do to you, do also to them,   
   for this is the Law and the Prophets.   
      
   [7] Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it   
   shall be opened unto you:   
   [8] For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to   
   him that knocketh it shall be opened.   
   [9] Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him   
   a stone?   
   [10] Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?   
   [11] If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children,   
   how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them   
   that ask him?   
   [12] Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do   
   ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.   
      
   The Narrow Gate   
      
   Lk 13:24   
      
   13 "Enter at the narrow gate, for wide is the gate   
   and broad is the way that leads to destruction,   
   and there are many who are going through it,   
   14 because small is the gate and narrow is the way which leads to life,   
   and there are few who find it.   
      
   [13] Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the   
   way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:   
   [14] Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto   
   life, and few there be that find it.   
      
   A Tree and Its Fruit   
   Lk 6:43-44   
      
   15 (1Jn 4:1; Mt 24:11; Col 2:8) "Beware of false prophets who come to you   
   in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.   
   16 (Mt 12:33; Jas 3:12) You will know them by their fruit.   
   Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?   
   17 (Mt 12:33-35) Even so, every good tree bears good fruit.   
   But a corrupt tree bears evil fruit.   
   18 A good tree cannot bear evil fruit,   
   nor can a corrupt tree bear good fruit.   
   19 (Mt 3:10; Lk 3:9) Every tree that does not bear good fruit   
   is cut down and thrown into the fire.   
   20 (Mt 7:16) Therefore, by their fruit you will know them.   
      
   [15] Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but   
   inwardly they are ravening wolves.   
   [16] Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or   
   figs of thistles?   
   [17] Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree   
   bringeth forth evil fruit.   
   [18] A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree   
   bring forth good fruit.   
   [19] Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast   
   into the fire.   
   [20] Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.   
      
   Luke 6:43-45   
      
   A Tree and Its Fruit   
   Mt 7:17-20   
      
   43 "A good tree does not bear corrupt fruit, nor does a corrupt tree   
   bear good fruit.   
   44 (Mt 12:33) Each tree is known by its own fruit. Men do not gather figs   
   from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a wild bush.   
   45 (Eph 4:29) A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bears   
   what is good, and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bears   
   what is evil. For of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.   
      
   [43] For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a   
   corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.   
   [44] For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not   
   gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.   
   [45] A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that   
   which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart   
   bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his   
   mouth speaketh.   
      
   Matthew 7:21-29   
      
   I Never Knew You   
   Lk 13:25-27   
      
   21 (Mt 25:11-12; Lk 6:46) "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall   
   enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father   
   who is in heaven.   
   22 (Nu 24:4; Mal 3:17-18) Many will say to Me on that day,   
   'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name,   
   cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonderful works in Your name?'   
   23 (Ps 6:8; Mt 25:41) But then I will declare to them,   
   'I never knew you. Depart from Me, you who practice evil.'Ps 6:8.   
      
   [21] Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the   
   kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in   
   heaven.   
   [22] Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in   
   thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many   
   wonderful works?   
   [23] And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye   
   that work iniquity.   
      
   The Two Housebuilders   
      
   Lk 6:47-49   
      
   24 (Lk 6:47-49) "Whoever hears these sayings of Mine and does them,   
   I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock.   
   25 And the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew   
   and beat on that house. And it did not fall, for it was founded a rock.   
   26 And every one who hears these sayings of Mine and does not do them   
   will be likened to a foolish man who built his house on the sand.   
   27 And the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew   
   and beat on that house. And it fell. And its fall was great."   
   28 (Mk 1:22; 6:2) When Jesus finished these sayings,   
   the people were astonished at His teaching,   
   29 for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.   
      
   [24] Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I   
   will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:   
   [25] And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and   
   beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.   
   [26] And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not,   
   shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:   
      
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