马太福音第七章耶稣在继续教导门徒们在日常生活中要遵循耶稣的话并去做。
第1—12节耶稣教导我们不要论断人。要做到不论断人,开始的时候可能不容易做到,但当我们真正谦卑下来,承认自己也是罪身且和别人一样烂的时候(圣经告诉我们没有一个义人,我们自己的罪似梁木,而别人得罪我们只是个刺而已),我们就会慢慢停止论断人,去活在耶稣的饶恕里和自己对别人饶恕里。
太7:1 你们不要论断人、免得你们被论断。
"Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.
太7:2 因为你们怎样论断人、也必怎样被论断。你们用甚么量器量给人、也必用甚么量器量给你们。
For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
太7:3 为甚么看见你弟兄眼中有刺、却不想自己眼中有梁木呢。
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?
第24—29节耶稣强调,门徒们要听他的话并去行。
太7:24 所以凡听见我这话就去行的、好比一个聪明人、把房子盖在盘石上。
"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.
太7:26 凡听见我这话不去行的、好比一个无知的人、把房子盖在沙土上。
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.