Mattheum 7
1 Nolite iudicare, et non iudicabimini: nolite condemnare, et non condemnabimini.
Criticise not, that you may not be criticised.
2 In quo enim iudicio iudicaveritis, iudicabimini: et in qua mensura mensi fueritis, remetietur vobis.
For with what criticism you criticise, you will be criticised: and with what measure you measure, it will be measured unto you.
3 Quid autem vides festucam in oculo fratris tui: et trabem in oculo tuo non vides?
But why do you see the mote which is in the eye of your brother, and do not recognize the beam which is in your own eye?
4 Aut quomodo dicis fratri tuo: Frater sine eiiciam festucam de oculo tuo, et ecce trabs est in oculo tuo?
Or how will you say to your brother, Permit me, I will cast out the mote from your eye; and behold, there is a beam in your own eye?
5 Hypocrita, eiice primum trabem de oculo tuo, et tunc videbis eiicere festucam de oculo fratris tui.
O hypocrite, first cast out the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to cast out the mote from the eye of your brother.
6 Nolite dare sanctum canibus: neque mittatis margaritas vestras ante porcos, ne forte conculcent eas pedibus suis, et conversi dirumpant vos.
Give not that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the swine, lest they may trample them under their feet, and having turned round tear you to pieces.
7 Petite, et dabitur vobis: quaerite, et invenietis: pulsate, et aperietur vobis.
Ask, and it shall be given unto you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
8 Omnis enim, qui petit, accipit: et qui quaerit, invenit: et pulsanti aperietur.
For every one asking receives; and the one seeking finds; and to the one knocking it shall be opened.
9 Aut quis est ex vobis homo, quem si petierit filius suus panem, numquid lapidem porriget ei?
What man is there of you, whom, if his son shall ask bread, he will give him a stone?
10 Aut si piscem petierit, numquid serpentem porriget ei?
And if he may ask a fish, whether will he give him a serpent?
11 Si ergo vos, cum sitis mali, nostis bona data dare filiis vestris: quanto magis pater vester, qui in caelis est, dabit bona petentibus se?
Therefore if you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to them that ask Him?
12 Omnia ergo quaecumque vultis ut faciant vobis homines, et vos facite illis. Haec est enim lex, et Prophetae.
Therefore all things whatsoever you may wish that the people may do unto you, do ye even so unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.
13 Intrate per angustam portam: quia lata porta, et spatiosa via est, quae ducit ad perditionem, et multi sunt qui intrant per eam.
Enter ye in through the narrow gate: because wide is the gate and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there are, who are going in through it.
14 Quam angusta porta, et arcta via est, quae ducit ad vitam: et pauci sunt, qui inveniunt eam!
Because narrow is the gate, and contracted the way, that leadeth into life, and few there are who find it.
15 Attendite a falsis prophetis, qui veniunt ad vos in vestimentis ovium, intrinsecus autem sunt lupi rapaces:
But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are rapacious wolves.
16 a fructibus eorum cognoscetis eos. Numquid colligunt de spinis uvas, aut de tribulis ficus?
You shall know them by their fruits. Do the people gather the grape-bunches from thorns, or figs from thistles?
17 Sic omnis arbor bona fructus bonos facit: mala autem arbor malos fructus facit.
So every good tree produces good fruits; and a corrupt tree produces evil fruits.
18 Non potest arbor bona malos fructus facere: neque arbor mala bonos fructus facere:
A good tree is not able to produce evil fruits, neither is a corrupt tree able to produce beautiful fruits.
19 Omnis arbor, quae non facit fructum bonum, excidetur, et in ignem mittetur.
Every tree not producing beautiful fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.
20 Igitur ex fructibus eorum cognoscetis eos.
Therefore you shall know them perfectly by their fruits.
21 Non omnis, qui dicit mihi, Domine, Domine, intrabit in regnum caelorum: sed qui facit voluntatem Patris mei, qui in caelis est, ipse intrabit in regnum caelorum.
Not every one saying to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in the heavens.
22 Multi dicent mihi in illa die: Domine, Domine, nonne in nomine tuo prophetavimus, et in nomine tuo daemonia eiecimus, et in nomine tuo virtutes multas fecimus?
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name cast out demons, and in thy name done many mighty works?
23 Et tunc confitebor illis: Quia numquam novi vos: discedite a me omnes, qui operamini iniquitatem.
Then I will confess unto them that I never knew you: depart from me, ye who work iniquity.
24 Omnis ergo, qui audit verba mea haec, et facit ea, assimilabitur viro sapienti, qui aedificavit domum suam supra petram,
Then every one who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, who built his house upon the rock.
25 et descendit pluvia, et venerunt flumina, et flaverunt venti, et irruerunt in domum illam, et non cecidit: fundata enim erat supra petram.
And the rain came down, and the rivers came, and the winds blew, and fell against that house; and it did not fall; for it was founded upon the rock.
26 Et omnis, qui audit verba mea haec, et non facit ea, similis erit viro stulto, qui aedificavit domum suam super arenam:
And every one hearing these words of mine, and doing them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.
27 et descendit pluvia, et venerunt flumina, et flaverunt venti, et irruerunt in domum illam, et cecidit, et fuit ruina illius magna.
And the rain came down, and the rivers came, and the winds blew, and beat against that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
28 Et factum est: cum consummasset Iesus verba haec, admirabantur turbae super doctrina eius.
And it came to pass when Jesus finished these discourses, the multitudes were astonished at His teaching:
29 Erat enim docens eos sicut potestatem habens, et non sicut Scribae, et Pharisaei.
for He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
