Joel 2:32 and Romans 10:13 promise that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered, whereas Matthew 7:21 and Luke 13:25-27 declare that many who call Him 'Lord, Lord' will be turned away and rejected. Traditional harmonization resolves the tension by distinguishing sincere, faithful prayer backed by structural moral obedience from superficial, hypocritical verbal professions that lack genuine internal conversion; conversely, critical scholarship treats it as a reflection of situational pastoral developments within early Christian preaching designed to curb ethical complacency.