TSK · Matthew 5:20

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

“The experts in the law and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat.

I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”

But the Lord said to him,“Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

Fear God, Not People Meanwhile, when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples,“Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

When Jesus noticed this, he said,“How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!

Jesus replied,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not in line with the truth.

and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness– a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness.

but nothing ritually unclean will ever enter into it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or practices falsehood, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.