不要評斷

「不要評斷人,免得你們被評斷。 因為,你們用什麼標準來評斷,也會同樣地被評斷;你們用什麼量器[a]來衡量,也會同樣地被衡量。 你為什麼看見你弟兄眼裡的木屑,卻不想自己眼裡的梁木呢? 又怎麼能對你弟兄說『讓我除掉你眼裡的木屑』呢?看哪,你自己眼裡還有梁木呢! 你這偽善的人!先除掉你自己眼裡的梁木,然後你才能看得清楚,好除掉你弟兄眼裡的木屑。 不要把神聖之物丟給狗,也不要把你們的珍珠丟在豬面前,免得牠們用腳把這些踐踏了,然後轉身撕咬你們。

不斷祈求

「不斷祈求吧,就會給你們;不斷尋找吧,就會找到;不斷敲門吧,就會為你們開門。 因為凡祈求的,就得到;尋找的,就找到;敲門的,就為他開門。 你們當中有哪個人,兒子要餅,卻給他石頭呢? 10 兒子要魚,卻給他蛇呢? 11 所以,如果你們做為惡人也知道把好的東西給自己的兒女,更何況你們在天上的父要把美好的賜給求他的人呢! 12 因此在任何事上,你們希望別人怎樣對待你們,你們也應當怎樣對待別人。要知道,這就是律法和先知[b]的教導[c]

要進窄門

13 「你們要從窄門進去;因為那通向滅亡[d]的門是大的,那條路是寬的,從那裡進去的人也多; 14 然而,那通向永生[e]的門是多麼小,路是多麼窄,找到它的人是多麼少。

15 「你們要提防假先知。他們披著羊皮來到你們這裡,裡面卻是凶殘的狼。 16 憑著他們的果子,你們就能認出他們來。難道從荊棘上能收葡萄,從蒺藜中能收無花果嗎? 17 同樣,好樹都結好果子,壞樹就結壞果子; 18 好樹不能結壞果子,壞樹也不能結好果子。 19 所有不結好果子的樹都要被砍下來,被丟進火裡。 20 因此憑著他們的果子,你們就能認出他們來。

21 「不是每一個稱呼我『主啊,主啊』的人,都能進入天國;只有遵行我天父旨意的人,才能進去。 22 在那一天,有許多人會對我說:『主啊,主啊,我們不是奉你的名做先知傳道[f],奉你的名驅趕鬼魔,奉你的名行了很多神蹟嗎?』 23 那時候,我要向他們宣告:『我從來不認識你們。離開我,你們這些作惡[g]的人!』[h]

兩種根基

24 「因此,凡是聽了我這些話而實行的人,就好比一個聰明的人把自己的房子建在磐石上。 25 大雨降下,急流沖來,狂風颳起,撞擊那房子,房子卻沒有倒塌,因為它在磐石上立定根基。 26 可是,凡是聽了我這些話而不實行的人,就好比一個愚拙的人把自己的房子建在沙灘上。 27 大雨降下,急流沖來,狂風颳起,撞擊那房子,房子就倒塌了,並且倒塌得非常厲害。」

28 當耶穌講完了這些話,眾人都對他的教導驚嘆不已, 29 因為耶穌教導他們,就像有權柄的人,不像他們的經文士們。

Footnotes

  1. 馬太福音 7:2 量器——或譯作「尺度」或「標準」。
  2. 馬太福音 7:12 先知——或譯作「先知書」。
  3. 馬太福音 7:12 的教導——輔助詞語。
  4. 馬太福音 7:13 滅亡——或譯作「沉淪」。
  5. 馬太福音 7:14 永生——原文直譯「生命」。
  6. 馬太福音 7:22 做先知傳道——原文直譯「說預言」。
  7. 馬太福音 7:23 惡——原文直譯「不法」。
  8. 馬太福音 7:23 《詩篇》6:8。

Judge not lest you be judged.

For with what gezar din (verdict) you judge, you will be judged, and with what measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

And why do you see the speck in the eye of your Ach [b’Moshiach], but you do not consider the beam in your own eye.

Or how will you say to your Ach [b’Moshiach], Let me take the speck out from your eye! (And, hinei! The beam is in your own eye!)

Tzevua (hypocrite), first take the beam out of your eye, and then you will see clearly enough to take out the speck from the eye of your Ach [b’Moshiach].

Do not give the kodesh to kelevim nor throw your pearls before chazirim, lest they will trample them with their feet and turn around and tear you into pieces.

Keep asking and it shall be given to you; keep searching and you shall find; keep knocking and the delet shall be opened to you.

For everyone asking receives, and the one searching finds, and to the one knocking the delet will be opened.

Or what man is there among you the ben of whom will ask for lechem (bread), and he will give him a stone.

10 Or if he asks for a dag (fish), will give him a nachash (snake)?

11 Therefore, if you, being ra’im (evil ones), know to give matanot tovot (good gifts) to your yeladim, how much more does your Av shbaShomayim give hatov (the good) to the ones asking Him.

12 Therefore, everything that you wish Bnei Adam do for you, thus also you do for them. For this is the Torah and the Neviim.

13 Enter through the derech (way) of the shaar hatzarut (gate of narrowness), for wide is the delet and broad is the rekhov (street) leading to Avaddon (destruction, hell, Abbadon), and rabbim (many) are they who enter through it.

14 But tzar (narrow) is the delet and constricted is the Derech (Way) that leads to Chayyim (life) and few are the ones finding it.

15 Beware of the neviei hasheker (false prophets), who come to you in the malbush (clothing) of kevasim (sheep), but within are ravenous ze’evim (wolves).

16 By their perot (fruits) you will have da’as of them. Surely grapes are not gathered from thorns nor figs from thistles, are they?

17 So every etz tov (good tree) produces pri tov (good fruit), but the etz nishchat (corrupt tree) produces pri rah.

18 An etz tov is not able to produce pri rah nor is an etz nishchat able to produce pri tov.

19 Kol etz (every tree) not producing pri tov is cut off and is thrown into HaEish (the Fire) (YESHAYAH 66:24; DANIEL 12:2).

20 Therefore, by their perot (fruits) you shall have da’as of them.

21 Not all the ones saying to me, Adoneinu, Adoneinu, will enter the Malchut HaShomayim, but the one doing the ratzon Avi shba-Shomayim (the will of my Father in Heaven [Mt 26:39]).

22 Many [messianic darshanim] will say to me [Moshiach] on that Day [the Yom HaDin, the Day of Judgment], Adoneinu, Adoneinu, did we not speak as neviim in your Name? Did we not cast out shedim (evil spirits, demons) in your Name? Did we not accomplish many niflaot (miracles) in your Name?

23 And then I will tell them to their face, I never had da’as of you. Depart from me, you workers of mufkarut (lawlessness) [TEHILLIM 6:9(8)].

24 Therefore, everyone who hears these dvarim (words) of mine and does them, is like a chacham (wise man) who built his bais (house) upon the Tzur (Rock).

25 And the geshem (rain) came down, the floods arrived, and the winds blew and beat against that bais, and it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the Tzur (Rock).

26 And everyone hearing these words of mine [Divrei Moshiach] and not doing them is like the shoteh (fool), who built his bais upon the sand.

27 And the geshem (rain) came down, and the floods arrived, and the winds blew and beat against that bais, and it fell, and gadolah was the mapalah (fall, downfall, defeat) of it.

28 And it came about when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach finished these divrei torah (words of teaching), the multitudes were filled with fear and wonder at his torah.

29 For his ministry of moreh (teacher) was as one having samchut (authority) and not as their Sofrim (scribes, torah teachers, rabbonim).