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- "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
- By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
- Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
- A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
- Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
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- Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
- "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
- Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?'
- Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'
- "Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
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- The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.
- But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
- The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."
- When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching,
- because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.
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