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.

“Why does He speak like this? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they asked His disciples, “Why does He eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.”

He answered them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those outside, everything comes in parables

For to the one who has, it will be given, and from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.”

he sleeps and rises—night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows—he doesn’t know how.

If any place does not welcome you and people refuse to listen to you, when you leave there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

For it doesn’t go into his heart but into the stomach and is eliminated.” (As a result, He made all foods clean.)

But sighing deeply in His spirit, He said, “Why does this generation demand a sign? I assure you: No sign will be given to this generation!”

For what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world yet lose his life?

“Elijah does come first and restores everything,” He replied. “How then is it written about the Son of Man that He must suffer many things and be treated with contempt?

“Whoever welcomes one little child such as this in My name welcomes Me. And whoever welcomes Me does not welcome Me, but Him who sent Me.”

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Their worm does not die,
and the fire is not quenched.

I assure you: Whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

I assure you: If anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

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.”

“A good tree doesn’t produce bad fruit; on the other hand, a bad tree doesn’t produce good fruit.

But the one who hears and does not act is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The river crashed against it, and immediately it collapsed. And the destruction of that house was great!”

For I too am a man placed 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.”

Then His disciples asked Him, “What does this parable mean?”

Therefore take care how you listen. For whoever has, more will be given to him; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”

John responded, “Master, we saw someone driving out demons in Your name, and we tried to stop him because he does not follow us.”

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

that slave’s master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.

He also said to the crowds: “When you see a cloud rising in the west, right away you say, ‘A storm is coming,’ and so it does.

But the Lord answered him and said, “Hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you untie his ox or donkey from the feeding trough on the Sabbath and lead it to water?

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, and even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.

“For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?

In the same way, therefore, every one of you who does not say good-bye to all his possessions cannot be My disciple.

“What man among you, who has 100 sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the 99 in the open field and go after the lost one until he finds it?

“Or what woman who has 10 silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?

Does he thank that slave because he did what was commanded?

yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice, so she doesn’t wear me out by her persistent coming.’”

I assure you: Whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

“‘I tell you, that to everyone who has, more will be given; and from the one who does not have, even what he does have will be taken away.

“Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription does it have?”

“Caesar’s,” they said.

Then He said to them, “But now, whoever has a money-bag should take it, and also a traveling bag. And whoever doesn’t have a sword should sell his robe and buy one.

The one named Cleopas answered Him, “Are You the only visitor in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things that happened there in these days?”

Look at My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself! Touch Me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have.”

Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the One and Only Son of God.

After this, Jesus found him in the temple complex and said to him, “See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”

Then Jesus replied, “I assure you: The Son is not able to do anything on His own, but only what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does these things in the same way.

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

Jesus, knowing in Himself that His disciples were complaining about this, asked them, “Does this offend you?

The Spirit is the One who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

For no one does anything in secret while he’s seeking public recognition. If You do these things, show Yourself to the world.”

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it—that its deeds are evil.

Then the Jews were amazed and said, “How does He know the Scriptures, since He hasn’t been trained?”

Then the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go so we won’t find Him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does He?

Others said, “This is the Messiah!” But some said, “Surely the Messiah doesn’t come from Galilee, does He?

Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Messiah comes from David’s offspring and from the town of Bethlehem, where David once lived?”

But this crowd, which doesn’t know the law, is accursed!”

“Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”

A slave does not remain in the household forever, but a son does remain forever.

You’re doing what your father does.”

“We weren’t born of sexual immorality,” they said. “We have one Father—God.”

Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He doesn’t keep the Sabbath!” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

They asked them, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He listens to him.

“I assure you: Anyone who doesn’t enter the sheep pen by the door but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and doesn’t own the sheep, leaves them and runs away when he sees a wolf coming. The wolf then snatches and scatters them.

This happens because he is a hired man and doesn’t care about the sheep.

“Aren’t there 12 hours in a day?” Jesus answered. “If anyone walks during the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

If anyone walks during the night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him.”

So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do since this man does many signs?

Jesus answered, “The light will be with you only a little longer. Walk while you have the light so that darkness doesn’t overtake you. The one who walks in darkness doesn’t know where he’s going.

If anyone hears My words and doesn’t keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.

The one who rejects Me and doesn’t accept My sayings has this as his judge: The word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

“One who has bathed,” Jesus told him, “doesn’t need to wash anything except his feet, but he is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”

“I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He.

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on My own. The Father who lives in Me does His works.

He is the Spirit of truth. The world is unable to receive Him because it doesn’t see Him or know Him. But you do know Him, because He remains with you and will be in you.

The one who doesn’t love Me will not keep My words. The word that you hear is not Mine but is from the Father who sent Me.

I have told you now before it happens so that when it does happen you may believe.