Matthew 7:22-29 ▼

22 Many will tell me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, did not we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?'

23 And then I will tell them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness.'

24 |Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, will be compared to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

25 And the rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

26 And everyone who hears these words of mine, and does not do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

27 And the rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall.|

28 And it happened, when Jesus had finished saying these things, that the crowds were astonished at his teaching,

29 for he taught them with authority, and not like their scribes.