Matthew 7:22

On judgment day many will point to their religious works as proof, expecting acceptance. Impressive spiritual activity can mask a lack of true relationship with Christ.

Cross-references · 23

• Luke 13:25–27When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’
• 1 Cor 13:1–2If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
• Mal 3:17–18They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
• Heb 6:4–6For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
• Acts 19:13–15But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”
• 2 Tim 4:8From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
• 2 Tim 1:12For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
• Matt 25:11Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’
• John 11:51Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
• Num 24:4he says, who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open:
• 1 Th 5:4But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.
• Luke 10:12I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.
• Isa 2:11The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
• Matt 10:5–8Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans.
• Matt 24:36But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
• Isa 2:17The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
• Jer 23:13–32“I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
• Matt 7:21Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
• Matt 10:15Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
• 2 Tim 1:18(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.
• 2 Th 1:10when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired among all those who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed) in that day.
• Num 31:8They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.
• 1 Kgs 22:11–20Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘With these you will push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’”

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