Matthew 7:21 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 7:21

Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

BSB

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ASV

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.

KJV

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Matthew (420)

(Verse 21.) Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. As he said before, those who have a garment of good life should not be received on account of the wickedness of their teachings: so now he asserts the opposite, that even faith should not be given to those who, although they possess the integrity of faith, live wickedly and destroy the integrity of doctrine with evil deeds.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century4 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Not every one that saith ... - The Saviour goes on to say that many, on the ground of a mere profession such as he had just referred to, would claim admittance into his kingdom. Many would plead that they had done miracles, and preached or prophesied much, and on the ground of that would demand an entrance into heaven. The power of working miracles had no necessary connection with piety. God may as well, if he chooses, give the power of raising the dead to a wicked man, as the skill of healing to a wicked physician.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1158: “The Sieve” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1874)

IN reading this chapter one is led to feel that it is not, after all, an easy thing to be a sincere Christian. The way is hard, the road is narrow. Who will, may represent the way to Heaven as being easy, but our Savior does not speak so of it. "Strait is the gate and narrow is the way, and few there are that find it." "Many are called and few chosen." The difficulty of being right is increased by the fact that there are men in the world whose trade it is to make counterfeits.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew (1856)

The Lord Jesus winds up the Sermon on the Mount by a passage of heart-piercing application. He turns from false prophets to false professors, from unsound teachers to unsound hearers. Here is a word for all. May we have grace to apply it to our own hearts! The first lesson here is the uselessness of a mere outward profession of Christianity. Not everyone that saith “Lord, Lord,” shall enter the kingdom of heaven. Not all that profess and call themselves Christians shall be saved. Let us take notice of this.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Yet our Lord claims and expects this of all His disciples, as when He washed their feet: "Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am" (Joh 13:13). shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven--that will which it had been the great object of this discourse to set forth.

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Οὐ	Ou	Not	G3756 →
πᾶς	pas	everyone	G3956 →
ὁ	ho	who	G3588 →
λέγων	legōn	is saying	G3004 →
μοι·	moi	to Me;	G3165 →
κύριε	kurie	Lord	G2962 →
κύριε,	kurie	Lord,	G2962 →
εἰσελεύσεται	eiseleusetai	will enter	G1525 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
βασιλείαν	basileian	kingdom	G932 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
οὐρανῶν,	ouranōn	heavens,	G3772 →
ἀλλ᾽	all᾽	but	G235 →
ὁ	ho	the [one]	G3588 →
ποιῶν	poiōn	doing	G4160 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
θέλημα	thelēma	will	G2307 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
πατρός	patros	Father	G3962 →
μου	mou	of Mine	G3165 →
τοῦ	tou	who [is]	G3588 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τοῖς	tois	the	G3588 →
οὐρανοῖς.	ouranois	heavens.	G3772 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
James 1:22
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
leads to
- John 13:17
  If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Romans 2:13
  For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.
- Luke 6:46–48
  Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I say?
- James 4:17
  Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
- 1 John 2:3
  By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.
Through
Luke 11:28
But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
leads to
- Luke 6:47–48
  I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them:
- Luke 8:21
  But He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out.”
- Psalms 112:1
  Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.