Popular Bible Verses from Matthew 7

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Jesus said, ‘Go on asking God for what you need. Then God will give it to you. Go on looking for what you need. Then you will find it. Go on knocking at the door, and God will open it for you.

Everyone who asks for something will receive it. Everyone who looks for something will find it. God will open the door for everyone who knocks on it.

Jesus then said, ‘Some people listen to my message and they obey it. Those people are like a wise man who built his house on rock.

So do the good things for other people that you would want them to do for you. That is true in everything you do. That is what God's Law and the messages of God's prophets teach us.’

It is difficult to go through the small gate. And it is difficult to walk on the narrow road. But when you do go that way, you will get true life. Not many people find that narrow gate.’

‘Go in through the narrow gate to get true life with God. There is a wide gate that is easy to go through. The wide path is easy to travel on. Many people find that wide gate, but it is the way that goes to God's final punishment.

You may be bad, but even you know how to give good things to your children. Your Father in heaven knows much better than you do how to give good things to his children. He will give good things to everyone who asks him.

Jesus then said, ‘Do not judge anyone, to say that they are a bad person. If you do that, God will judge you in the same way. God will think about you in the same way that you think about other people. He will use the same rules for you as you use for other people.

Other people listen to my message but they do not obey it. Those people are like a fool who built his house on sand.

Perhaps you want to tell your friend about his little mistake. If you want to do that, first remember your own bigger mistakes. You are like a person who has a big piece of wood in his eye. But then he says to his friend, “Let me take that little piece of dirt out of your eye for you.”

‘Some people say that they are prophets from God. But their words are false. They seem to be like sheep that are not dangerous. But they are really like hungry wild dogs. What they teach will hurt you. You will know these people by the way that they live. The things that they do are like their fruit. Grapes do not grow on thorn bushes. Figs do not grow on weeds.

Good fruit grows on a tree that is good. Bad fruit grows on a tree that is not good.

A good tree cannot make bad fruit. A bad tree cannot make good fruit.

A farmer will cut down any tree that does not make good fruit. He will burn it on a fire.