True Disciples

²¹ “Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter.

¹³ For merely listening to the law doesn’t make us right with God. It is obeying the law that makes us right in his sight.

²² But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves.

Building on a Solid Foundation

⁴⁶ “So why do you keep calling me ‘Lord, Lord!’ when you don’t do what I say?

²⁸ Jesus replied, “But even more blessed are all who hear the word of God and put it into practice.”

¹⁶ Such people claim they know God, but they deny him by the way they live. They are detestable and disobedient, worthless for doing anything good.

⁶ So God’s rest is there for people to enter, but those who first heard this good news failed to enter because they disobeyed God.

¹¹ Later, when the other five bridesmaids returned, they stood outside, calling, ‘Lord! Lord! Open the door for us!’

¹² “But he called back, ‘Believe me, I don’t know you!’

⁴⁰ For it is my Father’s will that all who see his Son and believe in him should have eternal life. I will raise them up at the last day.”