Matthew 7:19–29

¹⁹Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.↗

²⁰Therefore by their fruits you will know them.↗

²¹“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.↗

²²Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’↗

²³Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’↗

²⁴“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock.↗

²⁵The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.↗

²⁶Everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.↗

²⁷The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell—and its fall was great.”↗

²⁸When Jesus had finished saying these things, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,↗

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