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7:13-23 "Enter through the narrow gate
because the gate leading to destruction is both wide and broad and there
are many who go through it. The gate
leading to life is strait and narrow and there are few who find it. Beware of false prophets who come to you
in the clothing of sheep but inwardly they are greedy wolves. You will know them from their
fruits. People do not gather grapes
from thorns nor figs from thistles. Every good tree produces good fruit. But the corrupt tree produces evil
fruit. A good tree cannot bear good
fruit, nor a corrupt tree produce good fruit. Every tree that fails to produce good
fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Therefore you will know them from their fruits. Not everyone saying to me “Lord Lord”
will enter into the kingdom of heaven.
But the one doing the will of my father in heaven (will enter). Many will say
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to me
on that day “Lord Lord, did we not prohesy
in your name and expel demons in your name and do many mighty works in your
name?” And then I will declare to
them. “I never knew you. Depart from me, you who were working in
lawlessness.
Everyone
therefore who hears these words from me will be like a prudent man who built his house on rock. The rain came and the rivers came and the
winds blew against that house and it did not fall, for it had been founded
on rock. And everyone hearing these
words of mine and not doing them will be likened to a foolish man who built
his house on sand. And the rain came
and the rivers came and the winds blew and beat against that house and it fell and its fall
was a great one."
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