13. "Enter through the
narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to
destruction, and many enter through it.
14. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and
only a few find it.
21. "Not everyone who
says to me, `Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he
who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
22. Many will say to me on that day, `Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy
in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?'
23. Then I will tell them plainly, `I never knew you. Away from me, you
evildoers!'
9. To some who were confident
of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told
this parable:
10. "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the
other a tax collector.
11. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: `God, I thank you
that I am not like other men--robbers, evildoers, adulterers--or even
like this tax collector.
12. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'
13. "But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even
look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, `God, have mercy on me,
a sinner.'
14. "I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified
before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who
humbles himself will be exalted."