MEMORABLE ETERNAL LINES
JUDGE KINDLY
DO NOT JUDGE, lest you be judged. For with the judgment you use you will be
judged, and with the measure you use things will be measured out to you. Why do
you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the wooden beam in
your own eye? Or how can say to your brother, “Let me remove the speck from
your eye”, when behold, the wooden beam
is there in your own eye? You hypocrite,
first remove the wooden beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly
to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
“Do not give to dogs what is sacred, nor
throw your pearls down before swine, lest they trample them under foot and turn
and tear you in pieces.
‘Ask, and your request will be granted;
seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who
seeks finds, and to him who knocks the door will be opened. Or what man is there among you whose son will
ask him for bread----he will not give him a stone, will he? Or again, he will ask for a fish----he will
not give him a serpent, will he? If you
the, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how
much more your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
“All things therefore that you wish men to
do to you, you also must do to them; for this is the Law and the Prophets.
‘Enter through the narrow gate, for wide is
the gate and broad the way which leads to ruin, and many are they who enter by
it; for narrow is the gate and straitened the way which leads to life, and few
are they who find it.
‘Beware of false prophets who come to you
in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognise them by their fruits. Men do not gather grapes from thorn-bushes,
do they? Or figs from thistles? So every good tree bears good fruit and the
decayed tree bears bad fruit. A good
tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a decayed tree bear good fruit. Every tree which does not produce good fruit
is cut down and thrown into the fire. So
you will recognise them by their fruits.
`Not everyone who says to me “Lord! Lord! “
will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father
who is in heaven. Many will say to me in
that day, “Lord! Lord! Did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive
out demons, and in your name perform many miracles? And then I will openly declare to them, “I
never knew you. Depart from me, you
doers of lawlessness.”
‘Everyone therefore who hears these words
of mine and does them will be compared to a foolish man who built his house on
sandy soil. And the rain fell and the
floods came and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and
great was its fall.’
And it happened when Jesus had finished
these words that the crowds were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them
with the not of authority, and not as their scribes did.
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