On Judging † |
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Matthew 7:1-5* |
Mark 4:24-25* |
Luke 6:37-42* |
7 "Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. 2 For with the judgment you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. 3 Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your neighbor, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' while the log is in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor's eye. |
And he said to them, "Pay attention to what you hear; the measure you give will be the measure you get, and still more will be given you. 25 For to those who have, more will be given; and from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away." |
37 "Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven; 38 give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap; for the measure you give will be the measure you get back." 39 He also told them a parable: "Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? 40 A disciple is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully qualified will be like the teacher. 41 Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? 42 Or how can you say to your neighbor, 'Friend,let me take out the speck in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor's eye. |
[[ 53 Then each of them went home,8 1 while Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him and he sat down and began to teach them. 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them, 4 they said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. 5 Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" 6 They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." 8 And once again he bent down and wrote on the ground. 9 When they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the elders; and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 10 Jesus straightened up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" 11 She said, "No one, sir." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way, and from now on do not sin again."]] (John 7:53-8:11, NRSV) |
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On Profaning the Holy † |
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Matthew 7:6* |
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6 "Do not give what is holy to dogs; and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under foot and turn and maul you. |
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On God’s Answering of Prayer † |
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Matthew 7:7-11* |
Luke 11:9-13* |
John 16:24; 14:13-14; 15:7* |
7 "Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. 9 Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for bread, will give a stone? 10 Or if the child asks for a fish, will give a snake? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him! |
9 "So I say to you, Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. 11 Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for a fish, will give a snake instead of a fish? 12 Or if the child asks for an egg, will give a scorpion? 13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!" |
16:24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete. 13 I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If in my name you ask me for anything, I will do it. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. |
Jesus said: Seek and you will find. But (ajllav) those things about which you asked me during those days, I did not tell you on that day. Now I am willing to tell them, and you do not inquire about them. (Gospel of Thomas [GT] 92, trans., Bruce M. Metzger) Jesus [said]: He who seeks will find, . . . , it will be opened to him. (GT 94, trans. Bruce M. Metzger) |
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The Golden Rule † |
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Matthew 7:12* |
Luke 6:31* |
7:12 "In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets. |
6:31 Do to others as you would have them do to you. |
For thus He spoke: “Be ye merciful, that ye may obtain mercy; forgive, that it may be forgiven to you; as ye do, so shall it be done unto you; as ye judge, so shall ye be judged; as ye are kind, so shall kindness be shown to you; with what measure ye mete, with the same it shall be measured to you.” (1 Clement 13:2; on the Internet at http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.ii.ii.xiii.html, accessed May 9, 2009) And the way of life, then, is this: first, you shall love the God who made you; second, [you shall love] your neighbor as yourself; but all things that you wish not to be done to you, you also do not do to another. (Didache 1:2, my translation from the Greek text on the Internet at http://www.ccel.org/ccel/lake/fathers2.v.html, accessed May 9, 2009) His disciples (maqhthvV) asked him (and) said to him: Do you wish us to fast (nhsteuvein)? And in what way shall we pray (and) give alms (ejlehmosuvnh)? And what observances shall we keep (parathrei:n) with respect to eating? Jesus said: Do not speak a lie and do not do what you hate, because everything is manifest before Heaven. For (gavr) there is nothing hidden which shall not be made manifest, and there is nothing covered that shall remain without being revealed. (GT 6, trans. Bruce M. Metzger) |
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The Narrow Gate/Door † |
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Matthew 7:13-14* |
Luke 13:23-24* |
7:13 "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it. 14 For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it. |
13:23 Someone asked him, "Lord, will only a few be saved?" He said to them, 24 "Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able. |
There are two ways, one of life and one of death, but there is much difference between the two ways. (Didache 1:1, my translation from the Greek text on the Internet at http://www.ccel.org/ccel/lake/fathers2.v.html, accessed May 9, 2009) |
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† Aland, Kurt, ed., Synopsis of the Four Gospels, 1982, rev. printing, 1985, secs. 68-72, pp. 60-62, cf, sec, 187, p. 172; for the reference to extra-canonical sayings of Jesus, see Aland, Kurt, ed., Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum, 3rd ed., 1965, secs. 70-72, pp. 94-96. * NRSV |
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