The axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.

Every tree that does not bear 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 he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.

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.

For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and 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.”

Whoever does not receive you, nor heed your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.

And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.

And blessed is he who does not take offense at Me.”

All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters.

“Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it.

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

For whoever has, to him more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him.

When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is the one on whom seed was sown beside the road.

The slaves of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’

These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.”

[But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”]

When they came to Capernaum, those who collected the two-drachma tax came to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the two-drachma tax?”

“What do you think? If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go and search for the one that is straying?

But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every fact may be confirmed.

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

He *said to them, “Then how does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying,

the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know,

“For to everyone who has, more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away.