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23 “Then I will have to say to them, ‘I never knew you! You’re a bunch of evildoers—go away from me!’ ”

True obedience

24 “So, then, everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 Heavy rain fell; floods rose up; the winds blew and beat on that house. It didn’t fall, because it was founded on the rock.

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23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’(A)

The Wise and Foolish Builders(B)

24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice(C) is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.

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