Matthew 7
Matthew 7 is the seventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. The chapter is the last of the three chapters which comprise the Sermon on the Mount. Text. The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 29 verses. Textual witnesses. Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are: Analysis. In John Wesley's analysis of the Sermon on the Mount, chapter five outlines "the sum of all true religion", allowing chapter six 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" and this chapter to provide "cautions against the main hinderances of religion". Within the chapter there are several themes, with verses 1–12 dealing with judging and discernment. Matthew 7:1-5 relates the guidance on the Mote and the Beam, which has a parallel in . At Jesus returns to the subject of prayer, promising that God will respond to prayer. Verses and contain the analogy of the broad and narrow roads, a warning of the ease of slipping into damnation. Verse continues the warnings about judgment  and adds a caution about false prophets by repeating some of the language used by John the Baptist in chapter 3. The chapter ends with the parable of the wise and the foolish builders in –, which has a parallel in . According to theologian Edward Plumptre, in comparison with the preceding chapters, "this [chapter] deals chiefly with the temptations 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 of unconscious hypocrisy, the danger of unreality".