Matthew 5:32

5:32 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Matthew 7:8

7:8 For everyone who asks ¹  receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Matthew 7:21

Judgment of Pretenders

7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ ²  will enter into the kingdom of heaven – only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.

Matthew 7:24

Hearing and Doing

7:24 “Everyone ³  who hears these words of mine and does them is like ⁴  a wise man ⁵  who built his house on rock.

Matthew 7:26

7:26 Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

Matthew 10:22

10:22 And you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

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¹ sn The actions of asking, seeking, and knocking are repeated here from v. 7 with the encouragement that God does respond.

² sn The double use of the vocative is normally used in situations of high emotion or emphasis. Even an emphatic confession without action means little.

³ tn Grk “Therefore everyone.” Here οὖν (oun) has not been translated.

⁴ tn Grk “will be like.” The same phrase occurs in v. 26.

⁵ tn Here and in v. 26 the Greek text reads ἀνήρ (anhr), while the parallel account in Luke 6:47-49 uses ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") in vv. 48 and 49.