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# Matthew 7

Matthew 7 is chapter 7 of 28 in the Gospel of Matthew. Here are all 29 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The third part of the sermon on the mount.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Matthew 7 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. “Do not judge, so that you may not be judged.
2. For with whatever judgment you judge, so shall you be judged; and with whatever measure you measure out, so shall it be measured back to you.
3. And how can you see the splinter in your brother’s eye, and not see the board in your own eye?
4. Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the splinter from your eye,’ while, behold, a board is in your own eye?
5. Hypocrite, first remove the board from your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.
6. Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not cast your pearls before swine, lest perhaps they may trample them under their feet, and then, turning, they may tear you apart.
7. Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.
8. For everyone who asks, receives; and whoever seeks, finds; and to anyone who knocks, it will be opened.
9. Or what man is there among you, who, if his son were to ask him for bread, would offer him a stone;
10. or if he were to ask him for a fish, would offer him a snake?
11. Therefore, if you, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your sons, how much more will your Father, who is in heaven, give good things to those who ask him?
12. Therefore, all things whatsoever that you wish that men would do to you, do so also to them. For this is the law and the prophets.
13. Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate, and broad is the way, which leads to perdition, and many there are who enter through it.
14. How narrow is the gate, and how straight is the way, which leads to life, and few there are who find it!
15. Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
16. You shall know them by their fruits. Can grapes be gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles?
17. So then, every good tree produces good fruit, and the evil tree produces evil fruit.
18. A good tree is not able to produce evil fruit, and an evil tree is not able to produce good fruit.
19. Every tree which does not produce good fruit shall be cut down and cast into the fire.
20. Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.
21. Not all who say to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does the will of my Father, who is in heaven, the same shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.
22. Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and perform many powerful deeds in your name?’
23. And then will I disclose to them: ‘I have never known you. Depart from me, you workers of iniquity.’
24. Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and does them shall be compared to a wise man, who built his house upon the rock.
25. And the rains descended, and the floods rose up, and the winds blew, and rushed upon that house, but it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.
26. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them shall be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.
27. And the rains descended, and the floods rose up, and the winds blew, and rushed upon that house, and it did fall, and great was its ruin.”
28. And it happened, when Jesus had completed these words, that the crowds were astonished at his doctrine.
29. For he was teaching them as one who has authority, and not like their scribes and Pharisees.

## Matthew 7 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Nolite judicare, ut non judicemini.
2. In quo enim judicio judicaveritis, judicabimini: et in qua mensura mensi fueritis, remetietur vobis.
3. Quid autem vides festucam in oculo fratris tui, et trabem in oculo tuo non vides?
4. aut quomodo dicis fratri tuo: Sine ejiciam festucam de oculo tuo, et ecce trabs est in oculo tuo?
5. Hypocrita, ejice primum trabem de oculo tuo, et tunc videbis ejicere festucam de oculo fratris tui.
6. Nolite dare sanctum canibus: neque mittatis margaritas vestras ante porcos, ne forte conculcent eas pedibus suis, et conversi dirumpant vos.
7. Petite, et dabitur vobis: quærite, et invenietis: pulsate, et aperietur vobis.
8. Omnis enim qui petit, accipit: et qui quærit, invenit: et pulsanti aperietur.
9. Aut quis est ex vobis homo, quem si petierit filius suus panem, numquid lapidem porriget ei?
10. aut si piscem petierit, numquid serpentem porriget ei?
11. Si ergo vos, cum sitis mali, nostis bona data dare filiis vestris: quanto magis Pater vester, qui in cælis est, dabit bona petentibus se?
12. Omnia ergo quæcumque vultis ut faciant vobis homines, et vos facite illis. Hæc est enim lex, et prophetæ.
13. Intrate per angustam portam: quia lata porta, et spatiosa via est, quæ ducit ad perditionem, et multi sunt qui intrant per eam.
14. Quam angusta porta, et arcta via est, quæ ducit ad vitam: et pauci sunt qui inveniunt eam!
15. Attendite a falsis prophetis, qui veniunt ad vos in vestimentis ovium, intrinsecus autem sunt lupi rapaces:
16. a fructibus eorum cognoscetis eos. Numquid colligunt de spinis uvas, aut de tribulis ficus?
17. Sic omnis arbor bona fructus bonos facit: mala autem arbor malos fructus facit.
18. Non potest arbor bona malos fructus facere: neque arbor mala bonos fructus facere.
19. Omnis arbor, quæ non facit fructum bonum, excidetur, et in ignem mittetur.
20. Igitur ex fructibus eorum cognoscetis eos.
21. Non omnis qui dicit mihi, Domine, Domine, intrabit in regnum cælorum: sed qui facit voluntatem Patris mei, qui in cælis est, ipse intrabit in regnum cælorum.
22. Multi dicent mihi in illa die: Domine, Domine, nonne in nomine tuo prophetavimus, et in nomine tuo dæmonia ejecimus, et in nomine tuo virtutes multas fecimus?
23. Et tunc confitebor illis: Quia numquam novi vos: discedite a me, qui operamini iniquitatem.
24. Omnis ergo qui audit verba mea hæc, et facit ea, assimilabitur viro sapienti, qui ædificavit domum suam supra petram,
25. et descendit pluvia, et venerunt flumina, et flaverunt venti, et irruerunt in domum illam, et non cecidit: fundata enim erat super petram.
26. Et omnis qui audit verba mea hæc, et non facit ea, similis erit viro stulto, qui ædificavit domum suam super arenam:
27. et descendit pluvia, et venerunt flumina, et flaverunt venti, et irruerunt in domum illam, et cecidit, et fuit ruina illius magna.
28. Et factum est: cum consummasset Jesus verba hæc, admirabantur turbæ super doctrina ejus.
29. Erat enim docens eos sicut potestatem habens, et non sicut scribæ eorum, et pharisæi.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 678: To Judge the Living and the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2609: In the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1789: To Choose in Accord With Conscience ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1970: The New Law or the Law of the Gospel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2821: "Thy Kingdom Come" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1036: Hell ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1696: Life in Christ ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1970: The New Law or the Law of the Gospel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2285: Respect for the Dignity of Persons ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2005: Grace ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 443: The Only Son of God ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1821: The Theological Virtues ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2826: "Thy Will Be Done on Earth as It is in Heaven" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2611: In the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 581: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.” — St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul, ch. 9, 1897 (On this theme: verse 21)

## Read at Mass (US)

- Thu, Dec 3, 2026: St. Francis Xavier, Priest — Gospel, Matthew 7:21, 24-27
- Thu, Feb 18, 2027: Thursday of the First Week in Lent — Gospel, Matthew 7:7-12
- Mon, Jun 21, 2027 (computed): St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious — Gospel, Matthew 7:1-5
- Tue, Jun 22, 2027 (computed): Tuesday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time — Gospel, Matthew 7:6, 12-14

7 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).