Matthew 7:23 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 7:23

Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’

BSB

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ASV

And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

KJV

And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Then will I profess unto them,.... Publicly before men and angels, at the day of judgment, I never knew you; which must be understood consistent with the omniscience of Christ; for as the omniscient God he knew their persons and their works, and that they were workers of iniquity; he knew what they had been doing all their days under the guise of religion; he knew the principles of all their actions, and the views they had in all they did; nothing is hid from him.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

I never knew you - There never was a time that I approved of you: so that as many souls as they had saved, they were themselves never saved from their sins.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

Profess unto them - Say unto them; plainly declare. I never knew you - That is, I never approved of your conduct; never loved you; never regarded you as my friends. See Psa 1:6; 2Ti 2:19; 1Co 8:3. This proves that, with all their pretensions, they had never been true followers of Christ.

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.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
τότε	tote	then	G5119 →
ὁμολογήσω	homologēsō	I will declare	G3670 →
αὐτοῖς	autois	to them	G846 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
οὐδέποτε	oudepote	Never	G3763 →
ἔγνων	egnōn	knew I	G1097 →
ὑμᾶς·	humas	you;	G4771 →
ἀποχωρεῖτε	apochōreite	do depart	G672 →
ἀπ᾽	ap᾽	from	G575 →
ἐμοῦ	emou	Me	G1473 →
οἱ	hoi	you who [are]	G3588 →
ἐργαζόμενοι	ergazomenoi	working	G2038 →
τὴν	tēn	<the>	G3588 →
ἀνομίαν.¶	anomian	lawlessness.	G458 →

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
Psalms 6:8
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.
leads to
- Luke 13:27
  And he will answer, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers.’
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 119:115
  Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 145:18
  The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.
Through
Luke 13:27
And he will answer, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers.’
leads to
- Matthew 25:41
  Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 6:8
  Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.
Through
Matthew 25:41
Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
leads to
- 2 Peter 2:4
  For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
- Jude 1:6–7
  And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:9
  They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Matthew

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Matthew