Matthew 7:1-11

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Do Not Judge

7 “Do not judge, so that you won’t be judged.^{(A) 2} For with the judgment you use,^[a] you will be judged, and with the measure you use,^[b] it will be measured to you.^{(B) 3} Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the log in your own eye?^{(C) 4} Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and look, there’s a log in your eye? ⁵ Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye. ⁶ Don’t give what is holy to dogs or toss your pearls before pigs,^(D) or they will trample them with their feet, turn, and tear you to pieces.

Keep Asking, Searching, Knocking

⁷ “Keep asking,^[c](E) and it will be given to you.^(F) Keep searching,^[d] and you will find. Keep knocking,^[e] and the door^[f] will be opened to you. ⁸ For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds,^(G) and to the one who knocks, the door^[g] will be opened. ⁹ What man among you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? ¹⁰ Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? ¹¹ If you then, who are evil,^(H) know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!