Matthew 7:21

The Sermon On The Mount: False Followers

²⁰ So by their fruits you will get knowledge of them. ²¹ Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven. ²² A great number will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, were we not prophets in your name, and did we not by your name send out evil spirits, and by your name do works of power?

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My Father Who Is In Heaven

Matthew 25:11-12

After that the other virgins came, saying, Lord, Lord, let us in.

Luke 6:46

Why do you say to me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

Romans 2:13

For it is not the hearers of the law who will be judged as having righteousness before God, but only the doers:

James 1:22

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.

Matthew 10:32-33

To everyone, then, who gives witness to me before men, I will give witness before my Father in heaven.

Matthew 12:50

For whoever does the pleasure of my Father in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

John 3:5

Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God.

Isaiah 48:1-2

Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.

Hosea 8:2-3

They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.

Matthew 16:17

And Jesus made answer and said to him, A blessing on you, Simon Bar-jonah: because this knowledge has not come to you from flesh and blood, but from my Father in heaven.

Matthew 18:3

And said, Truly, I say to you, If you do not have a change of heart and become like little children, you will not go into the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19:24

And again I say to you, It is simpler for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of God.

Matthew 21:29-31

And he said in answer, I will not: but later, changing his decision, he went.

Matthew 25:21

His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.

Mark 3:35

Whoever does God's pleasure, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Luke 11:28

But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.

Luke 13:25

When the master of the house has got up, and the door has been shut, and you, still outside, give blows on the door, saying, Lord, let us in; he will make answer and say, I have no knowledge of where you come from.

Luke 18:25

It is simpler for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a man who has much money to come into the kingdom of God.

John 6:40

This, I say, is my Father's pleasure, that everyone who sees the Son and has faith in him may have eternal life: and I will take him up on the last day.

John 7:17

If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.

John 15:23

He who has hate for me has hate for my Father.

Acts 14:22

Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.

Romans 12:2

And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

Ephesians 6:6

Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart;

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his love, ever taking thought for you in his prayers, that you may be complete and fully certain of all the purpose of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;

1 Thessalonians 5:18

In everything give praise: for this is the purpose of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Titus 1:16

They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.

Hebrews 4:6

So that as it is clear that some have to go in, and that the first hearers of the good news were not able to go in because they went against God's orders,

Hebrews 13:21

Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.

James 2:20-26

Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?

1 Peter 2:15

Because it is God's pleasure that foolish and narrow-minded men may be put to shame by your good behaviour:

1 Peter 4:2

So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.

1 John 3:21-24

My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;

Revelation 3:5

He who overcomes will be dressed in white, and I will not take his name from the book of life, and I will give witness to his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Revelation 22:14

A blessing on those whose robes are washed, so that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may go in by the doors into the town.

Matthew 18:10

Let it not seem to you that one of these little ones is of no value; for I say to you that in heaven their angels see at all times the face of my Father in heaven.

Matthew 18:19

Again, I say to you, that if two of you are in agreement on earth about anything for which they will make a request, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.

Matthew 18:35

So will my Father in heaven do to you, if you do not everyone, from your hearts, give forgiveness to his brother.

Mark 10:23-24

And Jesus, looking round about, said to his disciples, How hard it is for those who have wealth to come into the kingdom of God!

John 5:17

But his answer was: My Father is still working even now, and so I am working.

John 10:29-30

That which my Father has given to me has more value than all; and no one is able to take anything out of the Father's hand.

John 14:7

If you had knowledge of me, you would have knowledge of my Father: you have knowledge of him now and have seen him.

Revelation 2:27

And he will be ruling them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of the potter they will be broken, even as I have power from my Father:

Matthew 26:39

And he went forward a little, and falling down on his face in prayer, he said, O my Father, if it is possible, let this cup go from me; but let not my pleasure, but yours be done.

Matthew 26:42

Again, a second time he went away, and said in prayer, O my Father, if this may not go from me without my taking it, let your pleasure be done.

Mark 9:47

And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out: it is better for you to go into the kingdom of God with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into hell,

Acts 19:13-20

But some of the Jews who went from place to place driving out evil spirits, took it on themselves to make use of the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, I give you orders, by Jesus, whom Paul is preaching.