For this let everyone who is godly pray unto You, in a time when You may be found; surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come near him.

Seek Jehovah while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near.

For He says: In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you. Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you will hear His voice,

do not harden your hearts as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness,

For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.

So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him. And Jehovah shut him in.

And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast; and the door was shut.

But why do you call Me Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say?

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

Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many works of power in Your name?

Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us!

But he answered and said, Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.

But He will say, I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.

And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, you who work out lawlessness!

Then He will also say to those on the left hand, Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire having been prepared for the devil and his angels: