Matthew 7:15-23 "Be
on your guard against false religious teachers, who come to you dressed
up as sheep but are really greedy wolves. You can tell them by their
fruit. Do you pick a bunch of grapes from a thorn-bush or figs from a
clump of thistles? Every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree
produces bad fruit. A good tree is incapable of producing bad fruit,
and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit. The tree that fails to
produce good fruit is cut down and burnt. So you may know men by their
fruit."
"It is not everyone who keeps
saying to me 'Lord, Lord' who will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but the
man who actually does my Heavenly Father's will.
"In 'that day' many will say to
me, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we preach in your name, didn't we cast out
devils in your name, and do many great things in your name?' Then I
shall tell them plainly, 'I have never known you. Go away from me, you
have worked on the side of evil!'"
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