7. "Enter through the narrow gate because the gate leading to destruction is both wide and broad and there are many who go through it. The gate
leading to life is strait and narrow and there are few who find it. Beware of false prophets who come to you in the clothing of sheep but inwardly they
are greedy wolves. You will know them from their fruits. People do not gather grapes from thorns nor figs from thistles. Every good tree produces good
fruit. But the corrupt tree produces evil fruit. A good tree cannot bear good fruit, nor a corrupt tree produce good fruit. Every tree that fails to
produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore you will know them from their fruits.
Not everyone saying to me "Lord Lord" will enter into the kingdom of heaven. But the one doing the will of my father in heaven (will enter).
Many will say
to me on that day "Lord Lord, did we not prohesy in your name and expel demons in your name and do many mighty works in your name?" And then I will
declare to them. "I never knew you. Depart from me, you who were working in lawlessness.
Everyone therefore who hears these words from me will be like a prudent man who built his house on rock. The rain came and the rivers came and
the winds blew against that house and it did not fall, for it had been founded on rock.
And everyone hearing these words of mine and not doing them will be likened to a foolish man who built his house on sand. And the rain came and the rivers
came and the winds blew and beat against that house and it fell and its fall was a great one."
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