OrthJBC - Matthew - 7

7:1  "Judge not lest you be judged.

7:2  For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged, and with what measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

7:3  And why do you see the speck in the eye of your brother, but you do not consider the beam in your own eye.

7:4  Or how will you say to your brother, let me take the speck out from your eye, and--hinei!--the beam is in your own eye.

7:5  Tzevu'a (hypocrite), first take the beam out of your eye, and then you will see clearly enough to take out the speck from the eye of your brother.

7:6  Do not give the kodesh (the holy) to kelevim (dogs) nor throw your pearls before chazirim, lest they will trample them with their feet and turn around and tear you into pieces.

7:7  Keep asking and it shall be given to you; keep searching and you shall find; keep knocking and the delet (door) shall be opened to you.

7:8  For everyone asking receives, and the one searching finds, and to the one knocking the delet will be opened.

7:9  Or what man is there among you the ben of whom will ask for lechem (bread), and he will give him a stone.

7:10  Or if he asks for a dag (fish), will give him a nachash (snake)?

7:11  Therefore, if you, being ra'im (evil ones), * know to give matanot tovot (good gifts) to your yeladim, how much more does your Av sh'baShomayim give tov (good) to the ones asking him.

7:12  Therefore, everything that you wish bnei Adam do for you, thus also you do for them. For this is the Torah and the Nevi'im. WITHOUT KEDUSHAH NO MAN WILL SEE HASHEM

7:13  Enter through the derech (way) of the delet hatzarut (door of narrowness), for wide is the delet and broad is the rehov (street) leading to Avaddon (destruction, hell, Abbadon), and rabbim (many) are they who enter through it.

7:14  But tzar (narrow) is the delet and constricted is the Derech (Way) that leads to Chayyim (life) and few are the ones finding it.

7:15  Beware of the nevi'ei hasheker (false prophets), who come to you in the malbush (clothing) of kevasim (sheep), but within are ravenous ze'evim (wolves).

7:16  By their perot (fruits) you will know them; surely grapes are not gathered from thorns nor figs from thistles, are they?

7:17  So every aitz tov (good tree) produces p'ri tov (good fruit), but the aitz nishchat (corrupt tree) produces p'ri rah.

7:18  An aitz tov is not able to produce p'ri rah nor is an aitz nishchat able to produce p'ri tov.

7:19  Kol aitz (every tree) not producing p'ri tov is cut off and is thrown into HaAish (the Fire) (Yeshayah 66:24; Daniel 12:2).

7:20  Therefore, by their perot (fruits) you shall know them.

7:21  Not all the ones saying to me, `Adoneinu, Adoneinu,` will enter the Malchut HaShomayim, but the one doing ratson Avi sh'baShomayim (the will of my Father in Heaven [Mt.26:39,42]).

7:22  Many will say to me [Moshiach] on that Day [the Yom HaDin, the Day of Judgment], `Adoneinu, Adoneinu, did we not speak as nevi'im in your Name? Did we not cast out shedim (evil spirits, demons) in your Name? Did we not accomplish many niflaot (miracles) in your Name?`

7:23  And then I will tell them to their face, `I never knew you. Depart from me, you workers of mufkarut (lawlessness)` [TEHILLIM 6:9(8)].

7:24  Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and does them, is like a chacham (wise man) who built his bais (house) upon the Tsur (Rock).

7:25  And the geshem (rain) came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that bais, and it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the Tsur (Rock).

7:26  And everyone hearing these words of mine [Divrei Moshiach] and not doing them is like the shoteh (fool), who built his bais upon the sand.

7:27  And the geshem (rain) came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that bais, and it fell, and gadolah was the mappalah (fall/downfall) of it." THE SAMCHUT (AUTHORITY) OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH

7:28  And it came about when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach finished these divrei torah (words of teaching), the multitudes were filled with fear and wonder at his torah.

7:29  For his ministry of moreh (teacher) was as one having samchut (authority) and not as their Sofrim (scribes/torah teachers, rabbonim).