¹⁶From their fruits ye shall know them; do men gather from thorns grapes? or from thistles figs? ¹⁷so every good tree doth yield good fruits, but the bad tree doth yield evil fruits. ¹⁸A good tree is not able to yield evil fruits, nor a bad tree to yield good fruits. ¹⁹Every tree not yielding good fruit is cut down and is cast to fire: ²⁰therefore from their fruits ye shall know them.

²¹‘Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens. ²²Many will say to me in that day, Lord, lord, have we not in thy name prophesied? and in thy name cast out demons? and in thy name done many mighty things? ²³and then I will acknowledge to them, that—I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.

²⁴‘Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock; ²⁵and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell not, for it had been founded on the rock.

²⁶‘And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; ²⁷and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.’ ²⁸And it came to pass, when Jesus ended these words, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching, ²⁹for he was teaching them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

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Matthew 7:24: “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.”

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