Matthew 7:16–29

¹⁶By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather a bunch of grapes from thorns, or from thistles figs? ¹⁷So every good tree produces good fruits, but the worthless tree produces bad fruits. ¹⁸A good tree cannot produce bad fruits, nor a worthless tree produce good fruits. ¹⁹Every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire. ²⁰By their fruits then surely ye shall know them.

²¹Not every one who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he that does the will of my Father who is in the heavens. ²²Many shall say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied through thy name, and through thy name cast out demons, and through thy name done many works of power? ²³and then will I avow unto them, I never knew you. Depart from me, workers of lawlessness. ²⁴Whoever therefore hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock; ²⁵and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and fell upon that house, and it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock. ²⁶And every one who hears these my words and does not do them, he shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand; ²⁷and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, and it fell, and its fall was great. ²⁸And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were astonished at his doctrine, ²⁹for he taught them as having authority, and not as their scribes.