马太福音 7
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
责人先责己
7 “不要论断别人,免得你们被论断。 2 因为你们怎样论断别人,也必照样被论断;你们用什么尺度衡量别人,也要用什么尺度衡量你们。 3 为什么你只看见你弟兄眼中的小刺,却看不见自己眼中的大梁呢? 4 既然你自己眼中有大梁,又怎么能对弟兄说‘让我除去你眼中的小刺’呢? 5 你这伪君子啊!要先除掉自己眼中的大梁,才能看得清楚,好清除弟兄眼中的小刺。
6 “不要把圣物给狗,免得狗转过头来咬你们,也不要把珍珠丢在猪前,免得猪践踏了珍珠。
祈求、寻找、叩门
7 “祈求,就会给你们;寻找,就会寻见;叩门,就会给你们开门。 8 因为凡祈求的,就得到;寻找的,就寻见;叩门的,就给他开门。
9 “你们做父亲的,谁会在儿子要饼时给他石头, 10 要鱼时给他毒蛇呢? 11 你们虽然邪恶,尚且知道把好东西给儿女,你们的天父岂不更要把好东西赐给求祂的人吗?
12 “所以,你们希望人怎样待你们,就要怎样待人,这是律法和先知的教导。
辨别与抉择
13 “你们要进窄门,因为通向灭亡的门大,路宽,进去的人也多; 14 但通向永生的门小,路窄,找到的人也少。
15 “你们要提防假先知,他们披着羊皮到你们当中,骨子里却是凶残的狼。 16 你们可以凭他们结的果子认出他们。荆棘怎能结出葡萄呢?蒺藜怎能长出无花果呢? 17 同样,好树结好果子,坏树结坏果子; 18 好树结不出坏果子,坏树也结不出好果子。 19 凡不结好果子的树,都要被砍下来丢在火里。 20 因此,你们可以凭他们结的果子认出他们。 21 并不是所有称呼我‘主啊,主啊’的人都能进天国,只有遵行我天父旨意的人才能进去。 22 在审判那天,很多人会对我说,‘主啊,主啊,我们不是奉你的名传道,奉你的名赶鬼,奉你的名行了许多神迹吗?’ 23 我会清楚地告诉他们,‘我从来不认识你们,你们这些作恶的人走开!’
两种盖房子的人
24 “所以,凡听了我的这些话就去行的人,就像聪明人把房子建在磐石上。 25 任由风吹雨打、洪水冲击,房子仍屹立不倒,因为它建基在磐石上。 26 凡听了我这些话不去行的,就像愚昧人把房子建在沙土上。 27 遇到风吹雨打、洪水冲击,房子就倒塌了,而且倒塌得很厉害。”
28 大家听完耶稣这番教导,都很惊奇, 29 因为祂教导他们时像位有权柄的人,不像他们的律法教师。
馬 太 福 音 7
Chinese New Testament: Easy-to-Read Version
耶稣谈评价他人
7 “不要评判人,上帝就不会评判你们。 2 因为你们用什么样的方式评判人,上帝也会用同样的方式来评判你们。你们用什么尺度衡量人,上帝也会用同样的尺度来衡量你们。
3 “为什么你只看见朋友眼里有刺,却看不见自己眼里有梁木呢? 4 既然你眼里有梁木,怎么能对你的朋友说∶‘让我来把你眼中的刺挑出来’呢? 5 你这个虚伪的人啊,还是先移去你自己眼中的梁木吧,然后,你才能看清楚,把朋友眼里的刺挑出来。
6 “不要把圣物喂狗,狗会反咬你一口;也不要把珍珠丢给猪,它们只会用蹄子践踏了珍珠。
向上帝请求你们需要的
7 “不断地请求,上帝就会赐给你们;不断地寻求,你们就会找到;不停地敲门,门就会为你们打开。 8 是的,不断请求的人就会得到;不断寻找的人就会找到;不停敲门的人,门就会为他打开。
9 “你们当中谁有儿子吗?如果他向你要面包,你会给他石头吗? 10 或者,如果他要鱼,你会给他蛇吗?绝对不会! 11 你们虽然邪恶,但是还知道如何把好东西给自己的孩子,那么,你们的天父肯定会把好东西给那些向他请求的人们了!
最重要的规则
12 “因此,在任何事情上,你们想让别人怎样对待自己,你们也应该怎样对待别人,这就是摩西律法和先知教导的含义。
天堂与地狱之路
13 “你们只有从窄门进去才能进入真正的生命,通向毁灭的门是敞开的,通向毁灭的路是宽阔的,有许多人走上了这条毁灭之路。 14 但是,通向永生的门是非常窄小和艰难的,只有极少数的人才能找到它。
人的行为表现品格
15 “要提防假先知,他们来到你们面前,看上去像绵羊,实际上却是危险的狼。 16 通过这些人的行为,你们会知道他们是什么样的人,就如荆棘丛中摘不到葡萄、蒺藜藤上结不出无花果一样。 17 同样,好树结好果,坏树结恶果。 18 好树结不出恶果;坏树也结不出好果。 19 所有不结好果的树,都要被砍倒,扔进火里烧掉。 20 同样的道理,你们可以从人的行为,看出他们的品质。
21 “不是所有呼唤我说‘主啊,主啊’的人,都能进天国。只有按照天父旨意行事的人,才能进天国。 22 在最后的日子里,许多人会呼唤我为主,说道∶‘主啊,主啊!我们曾以您的名义传道,我们曾以您的名义驱鬼。我们曾以您的名义行奇迹 [a]。’ 23 但是,我会清清楚楚地告诉他们∶‘我从来就不认识你们,走开,你们这些做恶的人。’
两种人
24 “听了我的话并付诸行动的人,就像一个深谋远虑的人,把自己的房子建在坚固的磐石上。 25 纵使雨淋、水冲、风吹击打,房子也不会倒塌,因为房基建在磐石上。 26 然而,听了我的话,却不付诸于行动的人,就像一个愚蠢的人,把房子建在沙滩上。 27 雨淋、水冲、风吹击打着房子,房子轰然倒塌了。”
28 耶稣讲完话后,人们都对他的教导非常惊讶, 29 因为他与其他的律法师不同,他像一个拥有权威的人那样传教。
Footnotes
- 馬 太 福 音 7:22 奇迹: 由上帝的力量所行的惊人的事情。
Matthew 7
New English Translation
Do Not Judge
7 “Do not judge so that you will not be judged.[a] 2 For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive.[b] 3 Why[c] do you see the speck[d] in your brother’s eye, but fail to see[e] the beam of wood[f] in your own? 4 Or how can you say[g] to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while there is a beam in your own? 5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. 6 Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces.[h]
Ask, Seek, Knock
7 “Ask[i] and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door[j] will be opened for you. 8 For everyone who asks[k] receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 9 Is[l] there anyone among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?[m] 11 If you then, although you are evil,[n] know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts[o] to those who ask him! 12 In[p] everything, treat others as you would want them[q] to treat you,[r] for this fulfills[s] the law and the prophets.
The Narrow Gate
13 “Enter[t] through the narrow gate, because the gate is wide and the way is spacious that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 14 How[u] narrow is the gate and difficult the way that leads to life,[v] and there are few who find it!
A Tree and Its Fruit
15 “Watch out for false prophets,[w] who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are voracious wolves.[x] 16 You will recognize them by their fruit. Grapes are not gathered[y] from thorns or figs from thistles, are they?[z] 17 In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad[aa] tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 So then, you will recognize them by their fruit.
Judgment of Pretenders
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’[ab] will enter into the kingdom of heaven—only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. 22 On that day, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many powerful deeds in your name?’[ac] 23 Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!’[ad]
Hearing and Doing
24 “Everyone[ae] who hears these words of mine and does them is like[af] a wise man[ag] who built his house on rock. 25 The rain fell, the flood[ah] came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because its foundation had been laid on rock. 26 Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed—it was utterly destroyed!”[ai]
28 When[aj] Jesus finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed by his teaching, 29 because he taught them like one who had authority,[ak] not like their experts in the law.[al]
Footnotes
- Matthew 7:1 sn The point of the statement do not judge so that you will not be judged is that the standards we apply to others God applies to us. The passive verb will not be judged has God is the unstated performer of the action. Such usage is generally thought to have arisen within Judaism out of the tendency to minimize the mention of God’s name out of reverence for God, and carried over into early Christian tradition, although in this particular verse the agent may be left unstated more for rhetorical effect. See also ExSyn 437-38.
- Matthew 7:2 tn Grk “by the measure with which you measure it will be measured to you.”
- Matthew 7:3 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
- Matthew 7:3 sn The term translated speck (KJV, ASV “mote”; NAB “splinter”) refers to a small piece of wood, chaff, or straw; see L&N 3.66.
- Matthew 7:3 tn Or “do not notice.”
- Matthew 7:3 sn The term beam of wood refers to a very big piece of wood, the main beam of a building, in contrast to the speck in the other’s eye (L&N 7.78).
- Matthew 7:4 tn Grk “how will you say?”
- Matthew 7:6 tn Or “otherwise the latter will trample them under their feet and the former will turn around and tear you to pieces.” This verse is sometimes understood as a chiasm of the pattern a-b-b-a, in which the first and last clauses belong together (“dogs…turn around and tear you to pieces”) and the second and third clauses belong together (“pigs…trample them under their feet”).
- Matthew 7:7 tn The three present imperatives in this verse are best viewed as iterative (Wallace, ExSyn 722, lists the verse as an example of this usage), calling for repeated action.sn Many interpreters see the three present imperatives (Ask…seek…knock) as mainly limited to persistence in prayer (cf. v. 11), though others see them referring more generally to taking the initiative with God in various ways.
- Matthew 7:7 tn Grk “it”; the referent (a door) is implied by the context and has been specified in the translation here and in v. 8 for clarity.
- Matthew 7:8 sn The actions of asking, seeking, and knocking are repeated here from v. 7 with the additional encouragement that God does respond to such requests/actions.
- Matthew 7:9 tn Grk “Or is there.”
- Matthew 7:10 sn The two questions of vv. 9-10 use a construction in Greek that expects a negative answer: “No parent would do this!”
- Matthew 7:11 tn The participle ὄντες (ontes) has been translated as a concessive adverbial participle: in spite of the fact that the hearers are “evil,” they still know how to give “good gifts” to their own children (see also ExSyn 634).
- Matthew 7:11 sn The provision of the good gifts is probably a reference to the wisdom and guidance supplied in response to repeated requests. The teaching as a whole stresses not that we get everything we want, but that God gives the good that we need.
- Matthew 7:12 tn Grk “Therefore in.” Here οὖν (oun) has not been translated.
- Matthew 7:12 tn This is a generic use of ἄνθρωπος (anthrōpos), referring to both males and females.
- Matthew 7:12 sn Jesus’ teaching as reflected in the phrase treat others as you would want them to treat you, known generally as the Golden Rule, is not completely unique in the ancient world, but here it is stated in its most emphatic, selfless form. It is stated negatively in Tobit 4:15, and can also be found in the Talmud in a story about the great rabbi Hillel, who is said to have told a Gentile who asked to be taught the Torah, “What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor; that is the whole Torah, while the rest is the commentary thereof; go and learn it” (b. Shabbat 31a).
- Matthew 7:12 tn Grk “is”; cf. CEV “This is what the Law and the Prophets are all about”; NIV “for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.”
- Matthew 7:13 sn The same verb is used in Matt 5:20, suggesting that the kingdom of heaven is to be understood here as the object.
- Matthew 7:14 tn See BDAG 1007 s.v. τίς for the translation of τί (ti) as an exclamation.
- Matthew 7:14 sn Here the destination is specified as life. In several places Matthew uses “life” or “eternal life” in proximity with “the kingdom of heaven,” suggesting a close relationship between the two concepts (compare Matt 25:34 with v. 46; Matt 19:16, 17, 29 with vv. 23, 24). Matthew consistently portrays “eternal life” as something a person enters in the world to come, whereas the Gospel of John sees “eternal life” as beginning in the present and continuing into the future (cf. John 5:24).
- Matthew 7:15 sn The identity of these false prophets is not specified, and this has led to a wide variety of suggested referents: the Pharisees, the Zealots, the Essenes (all roughly contemporaries of Jesus), later groups (representatives of Pauline Christianity, the Gnostics) or later individuals (Simon Magus mentioned in Acts 8:9-24, Bar Kokhba who led the Jewish revolt of A.D. 132-35), or the eschatological false prophets who will lead people astray in the end times (Matt 24:24). Of course, some of these suggestions assume a second century date for the composition (or redaction) of the Gospel of Matthew.
- Matthew 7:15 sn Sheep’s clothing…voracious wolves. Jesus uses a metaphor here to point out that these false prophets appear to be one thing, but in reality they are something quite different and dangerous.
- Matthew 7:16 tn Grk “They do not gather.” This has been simplified to the passive voice in the translation since the subject “they” is not specified further in the context.
- Matthew 7:16 tn The Greek construction anticipates a negative answer. This is indicated in the translation by the ‘tag’ question “are they?” at the end of the sentence.sn The statement illustrates the principle: That which cannot produce fruit does not produce fruit.
- Matthew 7:17 tn Grk “rotten.” The word σαπρός, modifying “tree” in both v. 17 and 18, can also mean “diseased” (L&N 65.28).
- Matthew 7:21 sn The double use of the vocative is normally used in situations of high emotion or emphasis. Even an emphatic confession like this one without corresponding action means little.
- Matthew 7:22 tn Grk “did we not in your name prophesy and in your name cast out demons and in your name do many powerful deeds.” The phrase “in your name” occurs before each of the verbs in the Greek text, making it somewhat emphatic, but the phrase was placed after the verbs in the translation for stylistic reasons.
- Matthew 7:23 tn Or “you who commit lawless deeds”; or “you who behave lawlessly”; Grk “workers of lawlessness.”
- Matthew 7:24 tn Grk “Therefore everyone.” Here οὖν (oun) has not been translated.
- Matthew 7:24 tn Grk “will be like.” The same phrase occurs in v. 26.
- Matthew 7:24 tn Here and in v. 26 the Greek text reads ἀνήρ (anēr), while the parallel account in Luke 6:47-49 uses ἄνθρωπος (anthrōpos) in vv. 48 and 49.
- Matthew 7:25 tn Grk “the rivers.”
- Matthew 7:27 tn Grk “and great was its fall.”
- Matthew 7:28 tn Grk “And it happened when.” The introductory phrase καὶ ἐγένετο (kai egeneto, “it happened that”) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.
- Matthew 7:29 sn Jesus’ teaching impressed the hearers with the directness of its claim; he taught with authority. A study of Jewish rabbinic interpretation shows that it was typical to cite a list of authorities to make one’s point. Jesus addressed the issues directly, in terms of his own understanding, without citing other teachers.
- Matthew 7:29 tn Or “their scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.
Matthew 7
Living Bible
7 “Don’t criticize, and then you won’t be criticized. 2 For others will treat you as you treat them. 3 And why worry about a speck in the eye of a brother when you have a board in your own? 4 Should you say, ‘Friend, let me help you get that speck out of your eye,’ when you can’t even see because of the board in your own? 5 Hypocrite! First get rid of the board. Then you can see to help your brother.
6 “Don’t give holy things to depraved men. Don’t give pearls to swine! They will trample the pearls and turn and attack you.
7 “Ask, and you will be given what you ask for. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened. 8 For everyone who asks, receives. Anyone who seeks, finds. If only you will knock, the door will open. 9 If a child asks his father for a loaf of bread, will he be given a stone instead? 10 If he asks for fish, will he be given a poisonous snake? Of course not! 11 And if you hard-hearted, sinful men know how to give good gifts to your children, won’t your Father in heaven even more certainly give good gifts to those who ask him for them?
12 “Do for others what you want them to do for you. This is the teaching of the laws of Moses in a nutshell.[a]
13 “Heaven can be entered only through the narrow gate! The highway to hell[b] is broad, and its gate is wide enough for all the multitudes who choose its easy way. 14 But the Gateway to Life is small, and the road is narrow, and only a few ever find it.
15 “Beware of false teachers who come disguised as harmless sheep, but are wolves and will tear you apart. 16 You can detect them by the way they act, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit. You need never confuse grapevines with thorn bushes or figs with thistles. 17 Different kinds of fruit trees can quickly be identified by examining their fruit. 18 A variety that produces delicious fruit never produces an inedible kind. And a tree producing an inedible kind can’t produce what is good. 19 So the trees having the inedible fruit are chopped down and thrown on the fire. 20 Yes, the way to identify a tree or a person[c] is by the kind of fruit produced.
21 “Not all who sound religious are really godly people. They may refer to me as ‘Lord,’ but still won’t get to heaven. For the decisive question is whether they obey my Father in heaven. 22 At the Judgment[d] many will tell me, ‘Lord, Lord, we told others about you and used your name to cast out demons and to do many other great miracles.’ 23 But I will reply, ‘You have never been mine.[e] Go away, for your deeds are evil.’
24 “All who listen to my instructions and follow them are wise, like a man who builds his house on solid rock. 25 Though the rain comes in torrents, and the floods rise and the storm winds beat against his house, it won’t collapse, for it is built on rock.
26 “But those who hear my instructions and ignore them are foolish, like a man who builds his house on sand. 27 For when the rains and floods come, and storm winds beat against his house, it will fall with a mighty crash.” 28 The crowds were amazed at Jesus’ sermons, 29 for he taught as one who had great authority, and not as their Jewish leaders.[f]
Footnotes
- Matthew 7:12 This is the teaching of the laws of Moses in a nutshell, literally, “This is the law and the prophets.”
- Matthew 7:13 The highway to hell, literally, “The way that leads to destruction.”
- Matthew 7:20 or a person, implied.
- Matthew 7:22 At the Judgment, literally, “In that day.”
- Matthew 7:23 You have never been mine, literally, “I never knew you.”
- Matthew 7:29 not as their Jewish leaders, literally, “not as the scribes.” These leaders only quoted others, and did not presume to present any fresh revelation.
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