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Compare Luke 6:46; 13:25-27
I believe that I’ve said it before, but, even if I have, I’ll say it here again:
A reader would be extremely hard-pressed to construct a case for the doctrine of salvation by grace alone, without works, from the four New Testament gospels (which is to say, from the recorded teachings of Jesus himself).
This passage is an illustration of why that would be so difficult, if, indeed, not impossible — as, in my view, it actually is.
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