loaf,
will he give him a stone? (10)or if he ask a fish, will he give him a
serpent? (11)If ye then, evil as ye are, know how to bestow good gifts
on your children; how much more will your Father who is in heaven,
bestow good things on those who ask him? (12)All things therefore
whatsoever ye would be willing that men should do to you, just so do ye
to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

(13)Enter in through the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and
spacious the road, which leadeth to perdition, and they are many who
enter that way: (14)because strait is the gate, and narrow the road,
which leadeth to life, and they are but a few who find it.

(15)Take heed then of false prophets, who come to you in the garb of
sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. (16)By their fruits ye
shall know them. Do men gather a bunch of grapes from thorns, or figs
from thistles? (17)So every good tree beareth good fruits; but every
bad tree in kind, produceth bad fruits. (18)A good tree cannot produce
bad fruits, neither can a tree bad in kind produce good fruits.
(19)Every tree that beareth not good fruit, is cut down, and cast into
the fire. (20)Well then! by their fruits ye shall know them. (21)Not
every one who saith to me, Lord, Lord! shall enter into the kingdom of
heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.
(22)Many will say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not
prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have we not cast out devils?
and in thy name done many miracles? (23)And then will I profess unto
them, that I never knew you: depart from me, ye workers of iniquity.

(24)Every man therefore who is hearing from me these words, and puts
them in practice, I will compare him to the intelligent man, who
erected his house upon a rock: (25)and the rain descended, and the
rivers rushed, and the winds blew, and they beat against that house,
and it fell not; for it was founded on a rock. (26)And every man who is
hearing these sayings of mine, and doth not practise them, he will
resemble the foolish man, who built his house upon the sand: (27)and
the rain descended, and the rivers rushed, and the winds blew, and set
against that house, and it fell; and the fall of it was great.

(28)And it was so, that when Jesus had concluded all these sayings, the
multitudes were exceedingly struck with his teaching: (29)for he taught
them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

CHAP. VIII.

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