So all your loyal people should pray to you in times of need; when a great flood of trouble comes rushing in, it will not reach them.

Turn to the LORD and pray to him, now that he is near.

Hear what God says: "When the time came for me to show you favor, I heard you; when the day arrived for me to save you, I helped you." Listen! This is the hour to receive God's favor; today is the day to be saved!

So then, as the Holy Spirit says, "If you hear God's voice today,

do not be stubborn, as your ancestors were when they rebelled against God, as they were that day in the desert when they put him to the test.

Afterward, you know, he wanted to receive his father's blessing; but he was turned back, because he could not find any way to change what he had done, even though in tears he looked for it.

as God had commanded. Then the LORD shut the door behind Noah.

So the foolish ones went off to buy some oil; and while they were gone, the bridegroom arrived. The five who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was closed.

"Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and yet don't do what I tell you?

"Not everyone who calls me 'Lord, Lord' will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only those who do what my Father in heaven wants them to do.

When the Judgment Day comes, many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord! In your name we spoke God's message, by your name we drove out many demons and performed many miracles!'

"Later the others arrived. 'Sir, sir! Let us in!' they cried out.

'Certainly not! I don't know you,' the bridegroom answered."

But he will say again, 'I don't know where you come from. Get away from me, all you wicked people!'

Then I will say to them, 'I never knew you. Get away from me, you wicked people!'

"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Away from me, you that are under God's curse! Away to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the Devil and his angels!