New American Standard Bible

Matthew 7:19-26 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

19. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

20. So then, you will know them by their fruits.

21. "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.

22. Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?'

23. And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.'

24. "Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock.

25. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.

26. Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.