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Matthew 7:22-24
New English Translation
Matthew 7:22-24
New English Translation
22 On that day, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many powerful deeds in your name?’[a] 23 Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!’[b]
Hearing and Doing
24 “Everyone[c] who hears these words of mine and does them is like[d] a wise man[e] who built his house on rock.
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- Matthew 7:22 tn Grk “did we not in your name prophesy and in your name cast out demons and in your name do many powerful deeds.” The phrase “in your name” occurs before each of the verbs in the Greek text, making it somewhat emphatic, but the phrase was placed after the verbs in the translation for stylistic reasons.
- Matthew 7:23 tn Or “you who commit lawless deeds”; or “you who behave lawlessly”; Grk “workers of lawlessness.”
- Matthew 7:24 tn Grk “Therefore everyone.” Here οὖν (oun) has not been translated.
- Matthew 7:24 tn Grk “will be like.” The same phrase occurs in v. 26.
- Matthew 7:24 tn Here and in v. 26 the Greek text reads ἀνήρ (anēr), while the parallel account in Luke 6:47-49 uses ἄνθρωπος (anthrōpos) in vv. 48 and 49.
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