11. As bad as you are, you still know how to give good gifts to your children. But your heavenly Father is even more ready to give good things to people who ask.
12. Treat others as you want them to treat you. This is what the Law and the Prophets are all about.
13. Go in through the narrow gate. The gate to destruction is wide, and the road that leads there is easy to follow. A lot of people go through that gate.
14. But the gate to life is very narrow. The road that leads there is so hard to follow that only a few people find it.
15. Watch out for false prophets! They dress up like sheep, but inside they are wolves who have come to attack you.
16. You can tell what they are by what they do. No one picks grapes or figs from thorn bushes.
17. A good tree produces good fruit, and a bad tree produces bad fruit.
18. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit.
19. Every tree that produces bad fruit will be chopped down and burnt.
20. You can tell who the false prophets are by their deeds.
21. Not everyone who calls me their Lord will get into the kingdom of heaven. Only the ones who obey my Father in heaven will get in.
22. On the day of judgment many will call me their Lord. They will say, “We preached in your name, and in your name we forced out demons and performed many miracles.”
23. But I will tell them, “I will have nothing to do with you! Get out of my sight, you evil people!”
24. Anyone who hears and obeys these teachings of mine is like a wise person who built a house on solid rock.
25. Rain poured down, rivers flooded, and winds beat against that house. But it did not fall, because it was built on solid rock.
26. Anyone who hears my teachings and doesn't obey them is like a foolish person who built a house on sand.