His winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn. But the chaff He will burn up with fire that never goes out.”

For I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

I assure you: You will never get out of there until you have paid the last penny!

Then I will announce to them, ‘I never knew you! Depart from Me, you lawbreakers!’

And whoever gives just a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple—I assure you: He will never lose his reward!”

Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says:

You will listen and listen,
yet never understand;
and you will look and look,
yet never perceive.

Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, “Oh no, Lord! This will never happen to You!”

“I assure you,” He said, “unless you are converted and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

and said to Him, “Do You hear what these children are saying?”

“Yes,” Jesus told them. “Have you never read:

You have prepared praise
from the mouths of children and nursing infants?”

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:

The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.
This came from the Lord
and is wonderful in our eyes?

For I tell you, you will never see Me again until you say, ‘He who comes in the name of the Lord is the blessed One’!”

For at that time there will be great tribulation, the kind that hasn’t taken place from the beginning of the world until now and never will again!

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

Peter told Him, “Even if everyone runs away because of You, I will never run away!”

“Even if I have to die with You,” Peter told Him, “I will never deny You!” And all the disciples said the same thing.