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Matthew 7:23

Verse 23 of 29. The 7th of 28 chapters in Matthew, in The Gospels.

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.”

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.