Luke 6:48
He is like a man who builds a house, who dug and excavated, and laid a foundation upon the rock. And when a flood developed, the stream beat upon that house, and could not shake it, for it had been founded upon the rock.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
47Every man who comes to me, and hears my sayings, and does them, I will show you to whom he is like.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. Thou have grown fat. Thou have grown thick. Thou have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Deuteronomy 32:31For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
2 Samuel 22:2And he said, LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine.
2 Samuel 22:32For who is God, except LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?
2 Samuel 23:3The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me. He who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,
Psalms 46:1God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Matthew Henry on Luke 6:38-49
Exhortations to Justice and Sincerity. 37 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven: 38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. 39 And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch? 40 The disciple is not above… Read the whole commentary →