Luke 6:48

He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.

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In The King James Version

He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.

In Context

47Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

49But he who hears, and does not do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun [Upright one] grew fat, and kicked. 2 You have grown fat. 2 You have grown thick. 2 You have become sleek. 1 Then he abandoned God who made him, 2 and rejected the Rock of his yishu'ah ·salvation·. 1

Deuteronomy 32:31For their rock is not as our Rock, 2 even our enemies themselves concede. 1

Psalms 46:1God is our refuge and strength, 2 a very present help in trouble. 1

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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