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Luke 6:49

The person who hears me but doesn't do what I say is like a man who builds a house without foundations. When the floodwater breaks against the house it collapses immediately—it's completely destroyed.”

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In The King James Version

But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.

In Context

48That person is like a man building a house. He digs down deep and lays the foundations on solid rock. When the river bursts its banks and the floodwater breaks against the house it's not damaged because it's built so well.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 44:16“Even though you say this message is from the Lord, we're not going to listen to you.

Hosea 4:14I will not punish your daughters when they practice prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, because you men visit whores and sacrifice with temple prostitutes. A people who lack understanding end up in disaster.

Matthew 13:20The seeds sown on stony ground are people who hear the message and happily accept it straight away.

Matthew 23:3so obey them and do everything they tell you. But don't follow what they do, because they don't practice what they preach.

Mark 4:17But since they have no real roots, they only last for a while until trouble or persecution comes, and then they quickly fall away.

Luke 8:5“A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he scattered the seed, some fell on the road where people trampled on it and birds ate it up.

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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