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10 Or, if he asks a fish, will you hand him a serpent?
11 Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what
is good, how much more will your Father in heaven give good to those
who ask him?
12 Well then, whatever you would have men do to you, do just
the same to them; that is the meaning of the Law and the prophets.
13 Enter by the narrow gate: for the gate is broad and the road is
wide that leads to destruction, and many enter that way.
14 But the road that leads to life is both narrow and close, and there
are few who find it.
15 Beware of false prophets; they come to you with the garb of
sheep but at the heart they are ravenous wolves.
16 You will know them by their fruit; does one gather grapes from
thorns or figs from thistles? No,
17 every good tree bears sound fruit, but a rotten tree bear bad
fruit;
18 a good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a rotten tree cannot bear
sound fruit.
19 Any tree that does not produce sound fruit will be cut down
and thrown into the fire.
20 So you will know them by their fruit.
21 It is not everyone that says to me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ who will get
into the Realm of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in
heaven.
22 Many will say to me at that Day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not
prophesy in your name? did we not cast out demons in your name? did we
not perform many miracles in your name?’
23 Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from
my presence, you workers of iniquity.’
24 Now, everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts
upon them will be like a sensible man, who built his house on rock.
25 Down came the rain, floods arose, winds blew and beat upon
that house, but it did not fall, for it was founded upon rock.
26 And everyone who listens to these words of mine and does
not act upon them will be like a stupid man, who built his house on sand.
27 Down came the rain, floods rose, winds blew and beat upon
that house, till down it fell—and mighty was the crash!”
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