<p> <SPAN name="C7V1"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:1</font></SPAN> "Don't judge, so that you
won't be judged. <SPAN name="C7V2"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:2</font></SPAN> For with
whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure
you measure, it will be measured to you. <SPAN name="C7V3"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:3</font></SPAN> Why do you see the speck that is
in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own
eye? <SPAN name="C7V4"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:4</font></SPAN> Or how will you tell
your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the
beam is in your own eye? <SPAN name="C7V5"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:5</font></SPAN> You hypocrite! First remove the
beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck
out of your brother's eye.</p>
<p> <SPAN name="C7V6"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:6</font></SPAN> "Don't give that which is
holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps
they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.</p>
<p> <SPAN name="C7V7"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:7</font></SPAN> "Ask, and it will be given
you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
<SPAN name="C7V8"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:8</font></SPAN> For everyone who asks
receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. <SPAN name="C7V9"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:9</font></SPAN> Or who is there among you, who, if
his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? <SPAN name="C7V10"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:10</font></SPAN> Or if he asks for a fish, who
will give him a serpent? <SPAN name="C7V11"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:11</font></SPAN> If you then, being evil, know how
to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is
in heaven give good things to those who ask him! <SPAN name="C7V12"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:12</font></SPAN> Therefore whatever you desire for
men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the
prophets.</p>
<p> <SPAN name="C7V13"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:13</font></SPAN> "Enter in by the narrow
gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction,
and many are those who enter in by it. <SPAN name="C7V14"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:14</font></SPAN> <SPAN href="#N40">How</SPAN> narrow is
the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who
find it.</p>
<p> <SPAN name="C7V15"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:15</font></SPAN> "Beware of false prophets,
who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
<SPAN name="C7V16"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:16</font></SPAN> By their fruits you will
know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
<SPAN name="C7V17"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:17</font></SPAN> Even so, every good tree
produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit. <SPAN name="C7V18"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:18</font></SPAN> A good tree can't produce evil
fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit. <SPAN name="C7V19"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:19</font></SPAN> Every tree that doesn't grow good
fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire. <SPAN name="C7V20"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:20</font></SPAN> Therefore, by their fruits you
will know them. <SPAN name="C7V21"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:21</font></SPAN> Not
everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of
Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. <SPAN name="C7V22"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:22</font></SPAN> Many will tell me in that day,
'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out
demons, and in your name do many mighty works?' <SPAN name="C7V23"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:23</font></SPAN> Then I will tell them, 'I never
knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.'</p>
<p> <SPAN name="C7V24"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:24</font></SPAN> "Everyone therefore who
hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man,
who built his house on a rock. <SPAN name="C7V25"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:25</font></SPAN> The rain came down, the floods
came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for
it was founded on the rock. <SPAN name="C7V26"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:26</font></SPAN> Everyone who hears these words of
mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house
on the sand. <SPAN name="C7V27"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:27</font></SPAN> The rain
came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house;
and it fell--and great was its fall."</p>
<p> <SPAN name="C7V28"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:28</font></SPAN> It happened, when
Jesus had finished saying these things, that the multitudes were
astonished at his teaching, <SPAN name="C7V29"><font size=-1 color="blue">7:29</font></SPAN> for he taught them with
authority, and not like the scribes.</p>
<p> <SPAN name="C8V1"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:1</font></SPAN> When he came down from
the mountain, great multitudes followed him. <SPAN name="C8V2"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:2</font></SPAN> Behold, a leper came to him and
worshiped him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me
clean."</p>
<p> <SPAN name="C8V3"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:3</font></SPAN> Jesus stretched out his
hand, and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be made
clean." Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. <SPAN name="C8V4"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:4</font></SPAN> Jesus said to him, "See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the
priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to
them."</p>
<p> <SPAN name="C8V5"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:5</font></SPAN> When he came into
Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him, <SPAN name="C8V6"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:6</font></SPAN> and saying, "Lord, my servant
lies in the house paralyzed, grievously tormented."</p>
<p> <SPAN name="C8V7"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:7</font></SPAN> Jesus said to him,
"I will come and heal him."</p>
<p> <SPAN name="C8V8"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:8</font></SPAN> The centurion answered,
"Lord, I'm not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the
word, and my servant will be healed. <SPAN name="C8V9"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:9</font></SPAN> For I am also a man under
authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he
goes; and tell another, 'Come,' and he comes; and tell my servant, 'Do
this,' and he does it."</p>
<p> <SPAN name="C8V10"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:10</font></SPAN> When Jesus heard it,
he marveled, and said to those who followed, "Most
certainly I tell you, I haven't found so great a faith, not even in
Israel. <SPAN name="C8V11"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:11</font></SPAN> I tell you that
many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven, <SPAN name="C8V12"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:12</font></SPAN> but the children of the Kingdom
will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and
gnashing of teeth." <SPAN name="C8V13"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:13</font></SPAN> Jesus said to the centurion,
"Go your way. Let it be done for you as you have
believed." His servant was healed in that hour.</p>
<p> <SPAN name="C8V14"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:14</font></SPAN> When Jesus came into
Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother lying sick with a fever. <SPAN name="C8V15"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:15</font></SPAN> He touched her hand, and the
fever left her. She got up and served <SPAN href="#N41">him.</SPAN> <SPAN name="C8V16"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:16</font></SPAN> When evening came, they brought
to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word,
and healed all who were sick; <SPAN name="C8V17"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:17</font></SPAN> that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying: "He took our
infirmities, and bore our diseases."<font color="#0000ff"
size=-1><sup><SPAN href="#N42">*</SPAN></sup></font> <SPAN name="C8V18"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:18</font></SPAN> Now when Jesus saw great
multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.</p>
<p> <SPAN name="C8V19"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:19</font></SPAN> A scribe came, and
said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go."</p>
<p> <SPAN name="C8V20"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:20</font></SPAN> Jesus said to him,
"The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have
nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."</p>
<p> <SPAN name="C8V21"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:21</font></SPAN> Another of his
disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my
father."</p>
<p> <SPAN name="C8V22"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:22</font></SPAN> But Jesus said to him,
"Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own
dead."</p>
<p> <SPAN name="C8V23"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:23</font></SPAN> When he got into a
boat, his disciples followed him. <SPAN name="C8V24"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:24</font></SPAN> Behold, a violent storm came up
on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was
asleep. <SPAN name="C8V25"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:25</font></SPAN> They came to him,
and woke him up, saying, "Save us, Lord! We are dying!"</p>
<p> <SPAN name="C8V26"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:26</font></SPAN> He said to them, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?"
Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.</p>
<p> <SPAN name="C8V27"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:27</font></SPAN> The men marveled,
saying, "What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea
obey him?"</p>
<p> <SPAN name="C8V28"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:28</font></SPAN> When he came to the
other side, into the country of the <SPAN href="#N43">Gergesenes,</SPAN> two
people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs,
exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way. <SPAN name="C8V29"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:29</font></SPAN> Behold, they cried out, saying,
"What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come
here to torment us before the time?" <SPAN name="C8V30"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:30</font></SPAN> Now there was a herd of many pigs
feeding far away from them. <SPAN name="C8V31"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:31</font></SPAN> The demons begged him, saying,
"If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs."</p>
<p> <SPAN name="C8V32"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:32</font></SPAN> He said to them, "Go!"</p>
<p>They came out, and went into the herd of pigs: and behold, the whole
herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea, and died in the water.
<SPAN name="C8V33"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:33</font></SPAN> Those who fed them fled,
and went away into the city, and told everything, including what happened
to those who were possessed with demons. <SPAN name="C8V34"><font size=-1 color="blue">8:34</font></SPAN> Behold, all the city came out to
meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their
borders.</p>
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