Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NIV

NIV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Matthew 7 :: New International Version (NIV)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

Judging Others

(Luk 6:37–42 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:1 - “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:2 - For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:3 - “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:4 - How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:5 - You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:6 - “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Ask, Seek, Knock

(Luk 11:9–13 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:7 - “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:8 - For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:9 - “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:10 - Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:11 - If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:12 - So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

The Narrow and Wide Gates

(Luk 13:24 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:13 - “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:14 - But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

True and False Prophets

(Mat 12:33; Luk 6:43–45 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:15 - “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:16 - By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:17 - Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:18 - A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:19 - Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:20 - Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.

True and False Disciples

(Luk 6:46; 13:26, 27 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:21 - “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:22 - Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:23 - Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

The Wise and Foolish Builders

(Luk 6:47–49 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:24 - “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:25 - The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:26 - But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:27

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:27 - The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:28

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:28 - When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:29

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:29 - because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.
See the NIV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NIV

THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV®
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.®
Used by Permission of Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide.


See detailed copyright information.

For more information on this translation, see the NIV Preface.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NIV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NIV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Matthew Chapter 7 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Morphological Greek New Testament Textus Receptus Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras