Matthew 7:22-29 ▼

22 Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your Name? And in Your Name cast out demons? And in Your Name done many mighty things?

23 And then I will acknowledge to them, that—I never knew you, depart from Me you who are working lawlessness.

24 Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock;

25 and the rain descended, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on 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 is not doing them, will be likened to a foolish man who built his house on the sand;

27 and the rain descended, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.”

28 And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these words, the multitudes were astonished at His teaching,

29 for He was teaching them as having authority, and not as the scribes.