Matthew 7
1 “Do not talk about how sinfully others have acted, in order that God will not say how sinfully you have acted.
Các ngươi đừng đoán xét ai, để mình khỏi bị đoán xét.
2 If you condemn [other people], [God] will condemn you. To the same extent that you condemn others, you will be condemned {[God] will condemn you}.
Vì các ngươi đoán xét người ta thể nào, thì họ cũng đoán xét lại thể ấy; các ngươi lường cho người ta mực nào, thì họ cũng lường lại cho mực ấy.
3 (None of you should be concerned [about someone else’s small faults] [MET]!/Why should any of you be concerned [about someone else’s small faults]?) [MET, RHQ] [That would be like noticing] a speck in that person’s eye. But you should [be concerned about your own big faults. They are like] [MET] planks in your own eye, which you do not notice.
Sao ngươi dòm thấy cái rác trong mắt anh em ngươi, mà chẳng thấy cây đà trong mắt mình?
4 (You should not say to other people [about their minor faults], ‘Let me remove the specks from your eyes!’/Why do you say to other people [about their minor faults], ‘Let me remove the specks from your eyes?’) [RHQ] [You should not say that] if a plank is still in your own eye [MET].
Sao ngươi dám nói với anh em rằng: Để tôi lấy cái rác ra khỏi mắt anh, mà chính ngươi có cây đà trong mắt mình?
5 You hypocrite, [stop committing your own sins! That will be like] removing the plank from your own eye [MET]. Then, as a result, you will be able to perceive things spiritually so that you can help other people get rid of the [faults] [MET] [that are like] specks in their eyes.”
Hỡi kẻ giả hình! trước hết phải lấy cây đà khỏi mắt mình đi, rồi mới thấy rõ mà lấy cái rác ra khỏi mắt anh em mình được.
6 “You do not give holy things to dogs [that would ignore those things] and attack you [CHI]. You do not throw pearls in front of hogs, [because they would just ignore them] and trample them. [Similarly], do not give [precious spiritual truth to people you know will not value it but instead will do evil things to you].”
Đừng cho chó những đồ thánh, và đừng quăng hột trai mình trước mặt heo, kẻo nó đạp dưới chân, và quay lại cắn xé các ngươi.
7 “Keep asking [God for what you need]. If you do that, [he] will give it to you. Confidently keep [expecting God to give you the things that you need, and he will give them to you. It will be like] [MET] looking for what you need and finding it. Keep on [praying persistently to God. Then God will answer you. It will be like] [MET] knocking [on a door in order to enter a room]. And the way will be opened {[God] will open the way} for you [to get what you pray for].
Hãy xin, sẽ được; hãy tìm, sẽ gặp; hãy gõ cửa, sẽ mở cho.
8 Remember that [God] will give things to everyone who continues to ask [him for them]. [He] will give things to whoever confidently keeps asking. [He] will open [the way] for people [to get the things that they keep persistently praying for].
Bởi vì, hễ ai xin thì được; ai tìm thì gặp; ai gõ cửa thì được mở.
9 (No man among you would give a stone to his son if his son were to ask for bread./Would anyone among you give a stone to his son if his son were to ask for bread?) [RHQ]
Trong các ngươi có ai, khi con mình xin bánh, mà cho đá chăng?
10 Likewise, (no man would give a [poisonous] snake to his son if his son would ask for a fish./would anyone give a [poisonous] snake to his son if his son would ask for a fish?) [RHQ]
Hay là con mình xin cá, mà cho rắn chăng?
11 You, who are evil, know how to give good things to your children. So [God], your Father who is in heaven, will certainly give good things to the people who ask him.”
Vậy nếu các ngươi vốn là xấu, còn biết cho con cái mình các vật tốt thay, huống chi Cha các ngươi ở trên trời lại chẳng ban các vật tốt cho những người xin Ngài sao?
12 “So in whatever way you want others to act toward you [(pl)], that is the way you [(pl)] should act toward them, because that [sums up what Moses wrote in] the laws [that God gave him] and [also what] the prophets [wrote long ago].”
Aáy vậy, hễ điều chi mà các ngươi muốn người ta làm cho mình, thì cũng hãy làm điều đó cho họ, vì ấy là luật pháp và lời tiên tri.
13 “[Going to] where people live eternally [with God in heaven] is difficult. [It is like] going along a narrow road [PRS, MET] that leads to a narrow gate. Not many people find that way. [The way] that most [people take] is easy, [but it results in their being punished] {[God punishing them]} [in hell. That way is like a] wide road that people walk on [PRS, MET] until they reach the wide gate, but that road and that gate lead to where [they] will be destroyed {[God] will destroy them}. Many people enter that gate. So I [am telling you to leave the wide road and] enter the narrow gate [to heaven].” (questioned)
Hãy vào cửa hẹp, vì cửa rộng và đường khoảng khoát dẫn đến sự hư mất, kẻ vào đó cũng nhiều.
Song cửa hẹp và đường chật dẫn đến sự sống, kẻ kiếm được thì ít.
15 “Beware of people who come to you and say falsely that they are telling you [what God has said]. [They seem to be harmless, but they are extremely harmful. They are like] wolves that have covered themselves with sheepskins [to make people believe that they are sheep] [MET], but they actually are wolves that attack people [MET].
Hãy coi chừng tiên tri giả, là những kẻ mang lốt chiên đến cùng các ngươi, song bề trong thật là muông sói hay cắn xé.
16 [So how will you know that they are false?] Well, by seeing what plants produce, you know [what kind of plants] they are [MET]. [For example, thornbushes cannot produce grapes], so (no one can pick grapes from thornbushes./can anyone pick grapes from thornbushes?) [RHQ] And [thistles cannot produce figs], so (no one can pick figs from thistles./can anyone pick figs from thistles?) [RHQ]
Các ngươi nhờ những trái nó mà nhận biết được. Nào có ai hái trái nho nơi bụi gai, hay là trái vả nơi bụi tật lê?
17 [Here is another example]: All good fruit trees produce good fruit, but all unhealthy trees produce worthless fruit.
Vậy, hễ cây nào tốt thì sanh trái tốt; nhưng cây nào xấu thì sanh trái xấu.
18 No good fruit tree is able to produce worthless fruit, and no unhealthy tree is able to produce good fruit.
Cây tốt chẳng sanh được trái xấu, mà cây xấu cũng chẳng sanh được trái tốt.
19 [And] all the trees that do not produce good fruit are chopped down and burned in a fire {people chop them down and burn them in a fire} [to get rid of them]. [Similarly], those who falsely claim to be prophets [will be thrown] {[God will throw false prophets]} [into the fires of hell]. (questioned)
Hễ cây nào chẳng sanh trái tốt, thì phải đốn mà chụm đi.
20 By seeing [what plants] produce, you know [what kind of plants] they are. [Similarly, when you see what the people who come to you do], [you will know if they are false prophets].”
Aáy vậy, các ngươi nhờ những trái nó mà nhận biết được.
21 “[Even though many] people [habitually] call me ‘Lord’, [pretending that they have my authority], some of them will not go to heaven where God rules, [because they do not do what he desires]. [Only] those people who do what my Father, who is in heaven, desires [will go there].
Chẳng phải hễ những kẻ nói cùng ta rằng: Lạy Chúa, lạy Chúa, thì đều được vào nước thiên đàng đâu; nhưng chỉ kẻ làm theo ý muốn của Cha ta ở trên trời mà thôi.
22 On the day [MTY] [that God judges everyone], many [people, trying to tell me that they deserve to go to heaven], will say to me, ‘Lord, we(exc) spoke God’s message as your representatives [MTY, RHQ]! As your representatives we(exc) expelled demons from [people] [RHQ]! And as your representatives, many times we(exc) performed miracles [RHQ]!’
Ngày đó, sẽ có nhiều người thưa cùng ta rằng: Lạy Chúa, lạy Chúa, chúng tôi chẳng từng nhân danh Chúa mà nói tiên tri sao? nhân danh Chúa mà trừ quỉ sao? và lại nhân danh Chúa mà làm nhiều phép lạ sao?
23 Then I will declare to them, ‘I have never said that you belonged to me. Go away from me, you who do what is evil!’”
Khi ấy, ta sẽ phán rõ ràng cùng họ rằng: Hỡi kẻ làm gian ác, ta chẳng biết các ngươi bao giờ, hãy lui ra khỏi ta!
24 “So then, anyone who hears what I say and does what I command, will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.
Vậy, kẻ nào nghe và làm theo lời ta phán đây, thì giống như một người khôn ngoan cất nhà mình trên hòn đá.
25 [Even though] the rain came down and the river flooded, and the winds blew and beat against that house, it did not fall down because it had been built {he built it} on a solid foundation.
Có mưa sa, nước chảy, gió lay, xô động nhà ấy; song không sập, vì đã cất trên đá.
26 On the other hand, anyone who hears what I say but does not obey what I say will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
Kẻ nào nghe lời ta phán đây, mà không làm theo, khác nào như người dại cất nhà mình trên đất cát.
27 When the rain fell and the rivers flooded, and the winds blew and beat against that house, it crashed down and broke completely apart, [because it was built on the sand. So it is important for you to obey what I teach you].”
Có mưa sa, nước chảy, gió lay, xô động nhà ấy, thì bị sập, hư hại rất nhiều.
28 When Jesus finished saying all those things, the [who had been listening to him were] amazed at the [new] teaching that he had taught them.
Vả, khi Đức Chúa Jêsus vừa phán những lời ấy xong, đoàn dân lấy đạo Ngài làm lạ;
29 The reason they were amazed was that he was teaching as a person does who has authority. He was not teaching like the men who taught the [Jewish] laws, [who just repeated what other people had taught them].
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