# Matthew 7 > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Matthew_7 > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Matthew_7.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_7 > Source revision: 1331061724 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{New Testament chapter short description}} {{Bible chapter | letname= Matthew 7 | previouslink= Matthew 6 | previousletter= chapter 6 | nextlink= Matthew 8 | nextletter= chapter 8 | book= [Gospel of Matthew](/source/Gospel_of_Matthew) | biblepart=[New Testament](/source/New_Testament) | booknum= 1 | category= [Gospel](/source/Gospel) | filename= Codex Sinaiticus Matthew 6,32-7,27.JPG | size=250px | name= Codex Sinaiticus Matthew 6,32–7,27 | caption=Matthew 6:32–7:27 on [Codex Sinaiticus](/source/Codex_Sinaiticus) (AD 330–360) }} '''Matthew 7''' is the seventh chapter of the [Gospel of Matthew](/source/Gospel_of_Matthew) in the [New Testament](/source/New_Testament). This chapter is the last of the three chapters which comprise the [Sermon on the Mount](/source/Sermon_on_the_Mount). ==Text== The original text was written in [Koine Greek](/source/Koine_Greek). This chapter is [divided into](/source/Chapters_and_verses_of_the_Bible) 29 verses. ===Textual witnesses=== Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:{{efn|The extant [Codex Alexandrinus](/source/Codex_Alexandrinus) and [Codex Bezae](/source/Codex_Bezae) do not contain this chapter due to [lacunae](/source/Lacuna_(manuscripts)).}} * [Codex Vaticanus](/source/Codex_Vaticanus) (~325–350; complete) * [Codex Sinaiticus](/source/Codex_Sinaiticus) (~330–360; complete) * [Codex Washingtonianus](/source/Codex_Washingtonianus) (~400) * [Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus](/source/Codex_Ephraemi_Rescriptus) (~450; extant verses 6–29) ==Verses== {{columns-list|colwidth=10em| *[Matthew 7:1](/source/Matthew_7%3A1) *[Matthew 7:2](/source/Matthew_7%3A2) *[Matthew 7:3](/source/Matthew_7%3A3) *[Matthew 7:4](/source/Matthew_7%3A4) *[Matthew 7:5](/source/Matthew_7%3A5) *[Matthew 7:6](/source/Matthew_7%3A6) *[Matthew 7:7](/source/Matthew_7%3A7) *[Matthew 7:8](/source/Matthew_7%3A8) *[Matthew 7:9](/source/Matthew_7%3A9) *[Matthew 7:10](/source/Matthew_7%3A10) *[Matthew 7:11](/source/Matthew_7%3A11) *[Matthew 7:12](/source/Matthew_7%3A12) *[Matthew 7:13](/source/Matthew_7%3A13) *[Matthew 7:14](/source/Matthew_7%3A14) *[Matthew 7:15](/source/Matthew_7%3A15) *[Matthew 7:16](/source/Matthew_7%3A16) *[Matthew 7:17](/source/Matthew_7%3A17) *[Matthew 7:18](/source/Matthew_7%3A18) *[Matthew 7:19](/source/Matthew_7%3A19) *[Matthew 7:20](/source/Matthew_7%3A20) *[Matthew 7:21](/source/Matthew_7%3A21) *[Matthew 7:22](/source/Matthew_7%3A22) *[Matthew 7:23](/source/Matthew_7%3A23) *[Matthew 7:24](/source/Matthew_7%3A24) *[Matthew 7:25](/source/Matthew_7%3A25) *[Matthew 7:26](/source/Matthew_7%3A26) *[Matthew 7:27](/source/Matthew_7%3A27) *[Matthew 7:28](/source/Matthew_7%3A28) *[Matthew 7:29](/source/Matthew_7%3A29) }} [[File:Codex Sinaiticus Matthew 7,27-8,28.JPG|thumb|right|upright=0.9|[Codex Sinaiticus](/source/Codex_Sinaiticus) (AD 330–360), Matthew 7:27–8:28]] ==Analysis== In [John Wesley](/source/John_Wesley)'s analysis of the Sermon on the Mount, [chapter five](/source/Matthew_5) outlines "the sum of all true religion", allowing [chapter six](/source/Matthew_6) to detail "rules for that right intention which we are to preserve in all our outward actions, unmixed with worldly desires or anxious cares for even the [necessaries of life](/source/Basic_needs)" and this chapter to provide "cautions against the main hinderances of religion".Wesley, J., [http://wesley.nnu.edu/john-wesley/the-sermons-of-john-wesley-1872-edition/sermon-21-upon-our-lords-sermon-on-the-mount-discourse-one/ Sermon 21, Upon Our Lord's Sermon on the Mount: Discourse One], accessed 10 August 2019 Within the chapter there are several themes, with verses 1–12 dealing with judging and discernment.Talbert, Charles H. ''Matthew''. {{ISBN|0-8010-3192-3}}. pp. 91–95. Verses 3–5 relate a [proverbial saying](/source/proverb) on [the Mote and the Beam](/source/the_Mote_and_the_Beam), which has a parallel in [Luke 6:37–42](/source/wikisource%3ABible_(American_Standard)%2FLuke).{{Cite book|author-first1=Steven L. |author-last1=Cox|author-first2= Kendell H. |author-last2=Easley |year=2007|title=Harmony of the Gospels|ISBN=0-8054-9444-8|page= 72}} At [Matthew 7:7](/source/Matthew_7%3A7) Jesus returns to the subject of [prayer](/source/prayer), promising that God will respond to prayer. Verses [7:13](/source/Matthew_7%3A13) and [14](/source/Matthew_7%3A14) contain the analogy of the broad and narrow roads, a warning of the ease of slipping into [damnation](/source/damnation). Verse [7:15](/source/Matthew_7%3A15) continues the warnings about judgment and adds a caution about [false prophets](/source/False_prophet){{cite book |last=Aune |first=David E. |author-link=David Edward Aune |year=1983 |chapter=The Prophecies of Jesus: Unmasking False Prophets |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0cY3kedl8NMC&pg=PA222 |title=Prophecy in Early Christianity and the Ancient Mediterranean World |location=[Grand Rapids, Michigan](/source/Grand_Rapids%2C_Michigan) |publisher=[Wm. B. Eerdmans](/source/Wm._B._Eerdmans) |pages=222–229 |isbn=978-0-8028-0635-2 |oclc=9555379}}{{cite book |last=Chae |first=Young S. |year=2006 |chapter=Matthew 7:15: False Prophets in Sheep's Clothing |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tliVZ-_MAOoC&pg=PA234 |title=Jesus as the Eschatological Davidic Shepherd: Studies in the Old Testament, Second Temple Judaism, and in the Gospel of Matthew |location=[Tübingen](/source/T%C3%BCbingen) |publisher=[Mohr Siebeck](/source/Mohr_Siebeck) |series=Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe |volume=216 |pages=234–236 |isbn=978-3-16-148876-4 |issn=0340-9570}}{{cite book |last=France |first=Richard T. |author-link=R. T. France |year=2007 |chapter=Scene 2: False Prophets |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ruP6J_XPCEC&pg=PA289 |title=The Gospel of Matthew |location=[Grand Rapids, Michigan](/source/Grand_Rapids%2C_Michigan) and [Cambridge, U.K.](/source/Cambridge) |publisher=[Wm. B. Eerdmans](/source/Wm._B._Eerdmans) |pages=289–291 |isbn=978-0-8028-2501-8 |lccn=2007013488}} by repeating some of the language used by [John the Baptist](/source/John_the_Baptist) in [chapter 3](/source/Matthew_3). The chapter ends with the [parable of the wise and the foolish builders](/source/parable_of_the_wise_and_the_foolish_builders) in [Matthew 7:24](/source/Matthew_7%3A24)–[27](/source/Matthew_7%3A27), which has a parallel in [Luke 6:46–49](/source/wikisource%3ABible_(American_Standard)%2FLuke). According to theologian [Edward Plumptre](/source/Edward_Plumptre), in comparison with the preceding chapters, "this [chapter] deals chiefly with the [temptation](/source/temptation)s incident to the more advanced stages of [Christian] life when lower forms of evil have been overcome – with the temper that judges others, the [self-deceit](/source/Self-deception) of unconscious [hypocrisy](/source/hypocrisy), the danger of unreality".Plumptre, E. H. (1905), [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/ellicott/matthew/7.htm Matthew 7], in ''[Ellicott](/source/Charles_Ellicott)'s Commentary for English Readers'', accessed 17 December 2016 == Notes == {{notelist}} == References == {{Reflist}} ==External links== {{Commons category|Gospel of Matthew - Chapter 7}} * {{bibleverse|Matthew|7|KJV}}, King James Bible at Wikisource * [http://www.latinvulgate.com/lv/verse.aspx?t=1&b=1&c=7 English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate] * [http://www.gospelhall.org/bible/bible.php?passage=Matthew+7 Online Bible at GospelHall.org] (ESV, KJV, Darby, American Standard Version, Bible in Basic English) * [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=47&chapter=7 Multiple bible versions] at [BibleGateway.com](/source/BibleGateway.com) (NKJV, NIV, NRSV etc.) {{Matthew 7}} {{Sermon on the Mount}} Category:Matthew 7 Matthew 07 --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Matthew 7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_7) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_7?action=history)). 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