And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.

But when you give money, let not your left hand see what your right hand does:

Every tree which does not give good fruit is cut down and put in the fire.

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.

Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;

And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand;

Because I myself am a man under authority, having under me fighting men; and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.

And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your Master take food with tax-farmers and sinners?

And he who does not take his cross and come after me is not good enough for me.

Or how may one go into a strong man's house and take his goods, if he does not first put cords round the strong man? and then he may take his goods.

Whoever is not with me is against me; and he who does not take part with me in getting people together, is driving them away.

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

These are the things which make a man unclean; but to take food with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean.

And when they had come to Capernaum, those who took the Temple tax came to Peter and said, Does not your master make payment of the Temple tax?

And if your brother does wrong to you, go, make clear to him his error between you and him in private: if he gives ear to you, you have got your brother back again.

But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden.

He says to them, How then does David in the Spirit give him the name of Lord, saying,

Does it not seem possible to you that if I make request to my Father he will even now send me an army of angels?

And if this comes to the ruler's ears, we will see that he does not make you responsible.

Why does this man say such things? he has no respect for God: from whom does forgiveness come but from God only?

And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was taking food with the tax-farmers and sinners, said to his disciples, Why does he take food and drink with such men?

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

And he said to them, Truly, Elijah does come first, and puts all things in order; and how is it said in the Writings that the Son of man will go through much sorrow and be made as nothing?

Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.

And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; and every tree which does not have good fruit will be cut down and put into the fire.

Everyone who comes to me and gives ear to my words and does them, I will make clear to you what he is like:

For I, myself, am a man under authority, having men under me; and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.

And he said to him, What does the law say, in your reading of it?

The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of a man, goes through dry places, looking for rest; and when he does not get it, he says, I will go back to my house from which I came.

Whoever does not take up his cross and come after me may not be my disciple.

For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?

Give attention to yourselves: if your brother does wrong, say a sharp word to him; and if he has sorrow for his sin, let him have forgiveness.

And if he does you wrong seven times in a day, and seven times comes to you and says, I have regret for what I have done; let him have forgiveness.

Does he give praise to the servant because he did what was ordered?

Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.

The man who has faith in him does not come up to be judged; but he who has no faith in him has been judged even now, because he has no faith in the name of the only Son of God.

The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.

For he whom God has sent says God's words; and God does not give him the Spirit by measure.

He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.

In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain.

So Jesus made answer and said, Truly I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything himself; he is able to do only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does the Son does it in the same way.

For the Father has love for the Son and lets him see everything which he does: and he will let him see greater works than these so that you may be full of wonder.

No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.

When Jesus became conscious that his disciples were protesting about what he said, he said to them, Does this give you trouble?

Because no man does things secretly if he has a desire that men may have knowledge of him. If you do these things, let yourself be seen by all men.

It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.

And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin.

Now the servant does not go on living in the house for ever, but the son does.

Then some of the Pharisees said, That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath. Others said, How is it possible for a sinner to do such signs? So there was a division among them.

We have knowledge that God does not give ear to sinners, but if any man is a worshipper of God and does his pleasure, to him God's ears are open.

Truly I say to you, He who does not go through the door into the place where the sheep are kept, but gets in by some other way, is a thief and an outlaw.

Truly I say to you, If a seed of grain does not go into the earth and come to an end, it is still a seed and no more; but through its death it gives much fruit.

And if any man gives ear to my words and does not keep them, I am not his judge: I did not come to be judge of the world but to give salvation to the world.

He who puts me on one side and does not take my words to heart, is not without a judge: the word which I have said will be his judge on the last day.

Have you not faith that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words which I say to you, I say not from myself: but the Father who is in me all the time does his works.

He who has no love for me does not keep my words; and the word which you are hearing is not my word but the Father's who sent me.

If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.

And every soul who does not give attention to that prophet, will be cut off from among the people.

But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.

For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith.

As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness;

They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:

But what does it say in the holy Writings? And Abraham had faith in God, and it was put to his account as righteousness.

Now, the reward is credited to him who does works, not as of grace but as a debt.

And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.

But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose?

For Moses says that the man who does the righteousness which is of the law will get life by it.

But what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart: that is, the word of faith of which we are the preachers:

But what answer does God make to him? I have still seven thousand men whose knees have not been bent to Baal.

Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.

Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval.

He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.

But he who is in doubt is judged if he takes food, because he does it not in faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

Gaius, with whom I am living, whose house is open to all the church, sends his love, so does Erastus, the manager of the accounts of the town, and Quartus, the brother.

For I am not conscious of any wrong in myself; but this does not make me clear, for it is the Lord who is my judge.

Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.

But the man who is strong in mind and purpose, who is not forced but has control over his desires, does well if he comes to the decision to keep her a virgin.

So then, he who gets married to his virgin does well, and he who keeps her unmarried does better.

But take care that this power of yours does not give cause for trouble to the feeble.

Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk?

Am I talking as a man? does not the law say the same?

If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world?

The cup of blessing which we take, does it not give us a part in the blood of Christ? and is not the broken bread a taking part in the body of Christ?

But every woman who does so with her head unveiled, puts shame on her head: for it is the same as if her hair was cut off.

Be judges yourselves of the question: does it seem right for a woman to take part in prayer unveiled?

Does it not seem natural to you that if a man has long hair, it is a cause of shame to him?

But if punishment does come, it is sent by the Lord, so that we may be safe when the world is judged.

He who makes use of tongues may do good to himself; but he who gives the prophet's word does good to the church.

Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.

For as we undergo more of the pain which Christ underwent, so through Christ does our comfort become greater.

But from those who seemed to be important (whatever they were has no weight with me: God does not take man's person into account): those who seemed to be important gave nothing new to me;

Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.

He who gives you the Spirit, and does works of power among you, is it by the works of law, or by the hearing of faith?

For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.

And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them.

Now this I say: The law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not put an end to the agreement made before by God, so as to make the undertaking without effect.

In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;

For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;

In the knowledge that for every good thing anyone does, he will have his reward from the Lord, If he is a servant or if he is free.

For our witness does not come from error or from an unclean heart or from deceit: