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You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?
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Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
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A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
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Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
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Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
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"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
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Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?'
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And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'
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"Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock:
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and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.
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But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand:
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and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall."
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And so it was, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people were astonished at His teaching,
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for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.