Luke 6:47

Everyone who comes to me and gives ear to my words and does them, I will make clear to you what he is like:

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In The King James Version

Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:

In Context

46Why do you say to me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

48He is like a man building a house, who went deep and put the base of it on a rock; and when the water came up and the river was driving against that house, it was not moved, because the building was good.

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Cross References

Matthew 7:24Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;

Matthew 12:50For whoever does the pleasure of my Father in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Luke 8:8And some falling on good earth, came up and gave fruit a hundred times as much. And with these words he said in a loud voice, He who has ears, let him give ear.

Luke 11:28But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.

John 5:40And still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life.

John 6:37Whatever the Father gives to me will come to me; and I will not send away anyone who comes to me.

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 →

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