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A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.
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1Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
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Thus you will recognize them
2by their fruits.
I Never Knew You
21 3“Not everyone who
4says to me, ‘Lord, Lord, ’ will
5enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who
6does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
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7On that day
8many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not
9prophesy in your name, and cast out demons
10in your name, and do many mighty works in your name? ’
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11And then will I declare to them, ‘I
12never knew you;
13depart from me,
14you workers of lawlessness. ’
Build Your House on the Rock
24 15“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like
16a wise man who built his house on the rock.
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And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.
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And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like
17a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
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And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it. ”
The Authority of Jesus
28 And when Jesus finished these sayings,
18the crowds were astonished at his teaching,