The master of the house will get up and close the door; then when you stand outside and begin to knock on the door and say, 'Open the door for us, sir!' he will answer you, 'I don't know where you come from!'

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

The LORD Almighty says to the priests, "Children honor their parents, and servants honor their masters. I am your father---why don't you honor me? I am your master---why don't you respect me? You despise me, and yet you ask, 'How have we despised 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.

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

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

Then the servant who had received one thousand coins came in and said, 'Sir, I know you are a hard man; you reap harvests where you did not plant, and you gather crops where you did not scatter seed.

Then they will answer him, 'When, Lord, did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and we would not help you?'

"You call me Teacher and Lord, and it is right that you do so, because that is what I am.

I have set an example for you, so that you will do just what I have done for you.

Now that you know this truth, how happy you will be if you put it into practice!

Do not deceive yourselves; no one makes a fool of God. You will reap exactly what you plant.