Luke 6:47

I will show you what someone is like who comes to me, hears my words, and acts on them.

Text-Critical English NT

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

46“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I say?

48He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock.

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Cross References

Matthew 7:24“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them I will compare to a wise man who built his house on the rock.

Matthew 12:50For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

Luke 8:8But other seed fell into good soil, and when it grew, it produced a hundred times more than what was sown.” As he said this, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Luke 11:28But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

John 5:40yet you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

John 6:37Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and I will never cast out 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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