Matius 7:21

Judgment of Pretenders

7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ ¹  will enter into the kingdom of heaven – only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.

Yakobus 1:22-25

1:22 But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves. 1:23 For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone ²  who gazes at his own face ³  in a mirror. 1:24 For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets ⁴  what sort of person he was. 1:25 But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, ⁵  and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out – he ⁶  will be blessed in what he does. ⁷ 

[7:21]  ¹ sn The double use of the vocative is normally used in situations of high emotion or emphasis. Even an emphatic confession without action means little.

[1:23]  ² tn The word for “man” or “individual” is ἀνήρ (anhr), which often means “male” or “man (as opposed to woman).” However, as BDAG 79 s.v. 2 says, here it is “equivalent to τὶς someone, a person.”

[1:23]  ³ tn Grk “the face of his beginning [or origin].”

[1:24]  ⁴ tn Grk “and he has gone out and immediately has forgotten.”

[1:25]  ⁵ tn Grk “continues.”

[1:25]  ⁶ tn Grk “this one.”

[1:25]  ⁷ tn Grk “in his doing.”