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If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"heading","text":"Ask, Seek, Knock"},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":7,"text":"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":8,"text":"For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":9,"text":"Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":10,"text":"Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":11,"text":"So if you 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!","footnotes":[]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":12,"text":"In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"heading","text":"The Narrow Gate"},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":13,"text":"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":14,"text":"But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"heading","text":"A Tree and Its Fruit"},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":15,"text":"Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":16,"text":"By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":17,"text":"Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":18,"text":"A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":19,"text":"Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":20,"text":"So then, by their fruit you will recognize them.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":21,"text":"Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":22,"text":"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 perform many miracles?’","footnotes":[]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":23,"text":"Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’","footnotes":[]},{"type":"heading","text":"The House on the Rock"},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":24,"text":"Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":25,"text":"The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because its foundation was on the rock.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":26,"text":"But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":27,"text":"The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its collapse!”","footnotes":[]},{"type":"heading","text":"The Authority of Jesus"},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":28,"text":"When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were astonished at His teaching,","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":29,"text":"because He taught as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.","footnotes":[]}],"footnotes":[]},"fullChapterApiLink":"/api/BSB/MAT/7.json"}