Even now the ax is ready to strike the root of the trees! Therefore, every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

Every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of My Father in heaven.

But everyone who hears these words of Mine and doesn’t act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

For I too am a man under authority, having soldiers under my command. I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes; and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”

When the Pharisees saw this, they asked His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

And whoever doesn’t take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.

Anyone who is not with Me is against Me, and anyone who does not gather with Me scatters.

“When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it roams through waterless places looking for rest but doesn’t find any.

For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven, that person is My brother and sister and mother.”

He answered them, “Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know, but it has not been given to them.

For whoever has, more will be given to him, and he will have more than enough. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the one sown along the path.

But the one sown on the good ground—this is one who hears and understands the word, who does bear fruit and yields: some 100, some 60, some 30 times what was sown.”

And His sisters, aren’t they all with us? So where does He get all these things?”

he does not have to honor his father.’ In this way, you have revoked God’s word because of your tradition.

These are the things that defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”

[However, this kind does not come out except by prayer and fasting.]”

When they came to Capernaum, those who collected the double-drachma tax approached Peter and said, “Doesn’t your Teacher pay the double-drachma tax?”

If he pays no attention to them, tell the church. But if he doesn’t pay attention even to the church, let him be like an unbeliever and a tax collector to you.

So My heavenly Father will also do to you if each of you does not forgive his brother from his heart.”

that slave’s master will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not know.

For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have more than enough. But from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.