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1 JUDGE not, that you may not be judged. 2 For with the same judgment that you judge, you will be judged, and with the same measure with which you measure, it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you see the splinter which is in your brother’s eye, and do not feel the beam which is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, let me take out the splinter from your eye, and behold there is a cross beam in your own eye? 5 O hypocrites, first take out the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to get out the splinter from your brother’s eye. 6 Do not give holy things to the dogs; and do not throw your pearls before the swine, for they might tread them with their feet, and then turn and rend you. 7 Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you. 8 For whoever asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, the door is opened. 9 Or who is the man among you, who when his son asks him for bread, why, will he hand him a stone? 10 Or if he should ask him for fish, why, will he hand him a snake? 11 If therefore you who err, know how to give good gifts to your sons, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Matthew 7:1-11, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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