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On that Day, many will say to me, `Lord, Lord! Didn't we prophesy in your name? Didn't we expel demons in your name? Didn't we perform many miracles in your name?'
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Then I will tell them to their faces, `I never knew you! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness!'
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"So, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a sensible man who built his house on bedrock.
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The rain fell, the rivers flooded, the winds blew and beat against that house, but it didn't collapse, because its foundation was on rock.
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But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a stupid man who built his house on sand.
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The rain fell, the rivers flooded, the wind blew and beat against that house, and it collapsed -- and its collapse was horrendous!"
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When Yeshua had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at the way he taught,
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for he was not instructing them like their Torah-teachers but as one who had authority himself.