These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Matthew 7
Brit Hadashah 29 verses
- 1 “Judge not, that you may not be judged;
- 2 for your own judgement will be dealt—and your own measure meted—to yourselves.
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And why do you look at the splinter in your brother’s eye, and not notice the beam which is in your own eye?
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- 4 Or how say to your brother, ‘Allow me to take the splinter out of your eye,’ while the beam is in your own eye?
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Hypocrite, first take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.
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- 6 “Give not that which is to the dogs, nor throw your pearls to the swine; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and then turn and attack you.
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“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
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Matthew 21:22 1 John 3:22 John 15:7 Mark 11:24 John 15:16 John 14:13-14 John 16:23-24 1 John 5:14-15 Jeremiah 33:3 James 1:5-6 Matthew 7:8 Psalm 145:18-19 Matthew 6:33 Luke 11:9-13 Hebrews 11:6 Jeremiah 29:12-13 Amos 5:4 James 5:15 Matthew 7:11 Matthew 18:19 Luke 18:1 Psalm 50:15 Isaiah 55:6-7 Psalm 27:8 John 4:10 Psalm 10:4 Psalm 86:5 Psalm 69:32 Psalm 70:4 Psalm 10:17 Song of Solomon 3:2 Proverbs 8:17 Psalm 105:3-4 Psalm 119:12 Revelation 3:17-18 1 Kings 3:5 Romans 2:7 Luke 13:25 Romans 3:11 -
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For it is always he who asks that receives, he who seeks that finds, and he who knocks that has the door opened to him.
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What man is there among you, who if his son shall ask him for bread will offer him a stone?
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- 10 Or if the son shall ask him for a fish will offer him a snake?
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If you then, imperfect as you are, how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in Heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
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Luke 11:11-13 Romans 8:32 James 1:17 Ephesians 2:1-5 1 John 4:10 2 Corinthians 9:8-15 Psalm 86:5 Genesis 8:21 Psalm 86:15 Psalm 84:11 Isaiah 49:15 Genesis 6:5 1 John 3:1 Malachi 1:6 Luke 2:10-11 Exodus 34:6-7 Romans 5:8-10 Titus 3:3-7 Jeremiah 33:14 Romans 3:19 Isaiah 55:8-9 Galatians 3:22 Jeremiah 17:9 2 Samuel 7:19 Job 15:16 Psalm 85:12 Hosea 11:8-9 Psalm 103:11-13 Micah 7:18 John 3:16 Hosea 14:2 Romans 3:9 - 12 Everything, therefore, be it what it may, that you would have men do to you, do you also the same to them; for in this the Law and the Prophets are summed up.
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“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad the road which leads to ruin, and many there are who enter by it;
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Luke 13:24-25 Proverbs 16:25 Isaiah 55:7 Ezekiel 18:27-32 Galatians 5:24 Matthew 3:2 John 10:9 Proverbs 9:6 John 14:6 1 Peter 4:17-18 Matthew 3:8 Matthew 23:13 Revelation 12:9 Revelation 13:8 Revelation 20:15 Revelation 20:3 Proverbs 7:27 Acts 2:38-40 Genesis 6:12 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9 Genesis 6:5 Isaiah 1:9 Psalm 14:2-3 2 Corinthians 4:4 Luke 9:33 Romans 3:9-19 Matthew 25:41 Acts 3:19 Ephesians 2:2-3 Luke 14:33 Romans 9:22 Matthew 18:2-3 1 John 5:19 2 Corinthians 6:17 Matthew 25:46 -
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because narrow is the gate and contracted the road which leads to Life, and few are those who find it.
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Mark 8:34 Matthew 16:24-25 Luke 13:23-30 Romans 12:2 Isaiah 35:8 Acts 14:22 Matthew 22:14 John 16:33 Matthew 25:1-12 Proverbs 8:20 1 Peter 3:20-21 John 15:18-20 Isaiah 30:21 Romans 9:32 John 16:2 1 Thessalonians 3:2-5 Romans 11:5-6 Proverbs 4:26-27 Ephesians 2:2-3 Romans 9:27-29 Jeremiah 6:16 Isaiah 57:14 Matthew 20:16 Luke 12:32 -
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“Beware of the false teachers—men who come to you in sheep’s fleeces, but beneath that disguise they are ravenous wolves.
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1 John 4:1 Matthew 24:11 2 Peter 2:1-3 Deuteronomy 13:1-3 Colossians 2:8 Mark 13:22-23 Acts 20:29-31 Micah 3:11 Micah 3:5-7 Jude 1:4 Revelation 19:20 Luke 6:26 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 2 Peter 3:17 Ezekiel 22:27 Jeremiah 28:15-17 Matthew 24:4-5 Revelation 17:6 Ezekiel 13:16 Philippians 3:2 John 10:12 Jeremiah 29:32 Luke 12:15 1 Timothy 4:1-3 Matthew 10:17 Isaiah 9:15-16 Romans 16:17-18 2 Timothy 3:5-9 2 Timothy 4:3 Jeremiah 14:14-16 Matthew 16:11 2 Peter 2:18-19 Zechariah 13:4 Galatians 2:4 Ephesians 4:14 Revelation 13:11-17 2 Timothy 3:13 Ephesians 5:6 Acts 13:40 Jeremiah 23:13-16 Zephaniah 3:3-4 Matthew 24:24-25 Ezekiel 22:25 Revelation 16:13 Mark 12:38-40 Matthew 16:6 Jeremiah 29:21 Ezekiel 13:22 Acts 13:6 Isaiah 56:10-11 -
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By their fruits you will easily recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thorns or figs from brambles?
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- 17 Just so every good tree produces good fruit, but a poisonous tree produces bad fruit.
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A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor a poisonous tree good fruit.
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Every tree which does not yield good fruit is cut down and thrown aside for burning.
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So by their fruits at any rate, you will easily recognize them.
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“Not every one who says to me, ‘Master, Master,’ will enter the Kingdom of the Heavens, but only those who are obedient to my Father who is in Heaven.
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James 1:22 Romans 2:13 Matthew 25:11-12 Luke 11:28 John 6:40 Luke 6:46 Hebrews 13:21 Titus 1:16 Matthew 12:50 James 2:20-26 John 3:5 Revelation 22:14 Matthew 10:32-33 Matthew 19:24 Matthew 25:21 Hebrews 4:6 Matthew 18:3 Revelation 3:5 Matthew 16:17 Luke 18:25 Colossians 4:12 John 7:17 1 Peter 4:2 John 15:23 Matthew 21:29-31 Mark 3:35 Romans 12:2 1 Thessalonians 4:3 Luke 13:25 1 John 3:21-24 1 Thessalonians 5:18 Ephesians 6:6 1 Peter 2:15 Acts 14:22 Isaiah 48:1-2 Hosea 8:2-3 John 10:29-30 John 14:7 John 5:17 Revelation 2:27 Matthew 18:10 Mark 10:23-24 Acts 19:13-20 Matthew 18:35 Matthew 26:42 Matthew 18:19 -
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Many will say to me on that day, “’Master, Master, have we not prophesied in Thy , and in Thy expelled demons, and in Thy performed many mighty works?’
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1 Corinthians 13:1-2 Luke 13:25-27 Numbers 24:4 Malachi 3:17-18 John 11:51 Matthew 24:36 Matthew 10:5-8 2 Timothy 1:18 1 Kings 22:11-20 Matthew 7:21 Matthew 25:11 Numbers 31:8 Luke 10:12 Isaiah 2:11 2 Timothy 1:12 Acts 19:13-15 Isaiah 2:17 Matthew 10:15 2 Thessalonians 1:10 1 Thessalonians 5:4 2 Timothy 4:8 Jeremiah 23:13-32 Hebrews 6:4-6 -
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“And then I will tell them plainly, “’I never knew you: begone from me, you doers of wickedness.’
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“Every one who hears these my teachings and acts upon them will be found to resemble a wise man who builds his house upon rock;
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Luke 6:47-49 John 13:17 Luke 11:28 John 14:15 Proverbs 10:8 James 2:17-26 1 Corinthians 3:10-11 1 John 2:3 John 15:10 1 John 3:22-24 John 15:14 John 14:22-24 James 1:21-27 Matthew 6:19-21 Job 28:28 Matthew 5:28-32 Matthew 5:3-12 Matthew 7:13-14 Matthew 12:50 Psalm 119:99 Galatians 6:7-8 Psalm 119:130 1 John 5:3-5 Matthew 6:14-15 Galatians 5:6-7 Revelation 22:14-15 Matthew 7:7-8 Psalm 111:10 Proverbs 14:8 James 3:13-18 Romans 2:6-9 - 25 and the heavy rain falls, the swollen torrents come, and the winds blow and beat against the house; yet it does not fall, for its foundation is on rock.
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And every one who hears these my teachings and does not act upon them will be found to resemble a fool who builds his house upon sand.
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The heavy rain descends, the swollen torrents come, and the winds blow and burst upon the house, and it falls; and disastrous is the fall.”
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- 28 When had concluded this discourse, the crowds were filled with amazement at His teaching,
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for He had been teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their Scribes taught.
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