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16 From their fruits you? will recognize them. Do they gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? 17 Thus every good tree produces good fruits, but the rotten tree produces evil fruits. 18 A good tree is not able to produce evil fruits, nor a rotten tree to produce good fruits. 19 Every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and is thrown into fire. 20 Therefore from their fruits you? will recognize them. 21 Not everyone who is saying to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but the one doing the will of My Father who is in the heavens. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name do many miracles?’ 23 And then I will profess to them, ‘I never knew you?; depart from Me, you working lawlessness!’ 24 Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and does them will be likened to a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain came down, and the rivers came, and the winds blew and fell upon that house; and it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who is hearing these words of Mine and not doing them will be likened to a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain came down, and the rivers came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house; and it fell—and its fall was great!” 28 And it came to pass when Jesus finished these words that the crowds were astonished at His teaching. 29 For He was teaching them as One having authority, and not as their scribes. Matthew 7:16-29, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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