Luke 6:48
He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep in the ground and built the house's foundation on solid rock. When a flood came, the torrent of water flowed against that house, but could not shake it, because it had been well built.
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47Every person who comes to me and hears my words and obeys them, I will tell you what he is like.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— 1 you grew fat, you were too fat, and you had eaten your fill— 1 he abandoned the God who made him, 1 and he rejected the Rock of his salvation. 1
Deuteronomy 32:31For our enemies' rock is not like our Rock, 1 just as even our enemies admit. 1
2 Samuel 22:2He prayed, 1 “Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, the one who rescues me. 1
2 Samuel 22:32For who is God except Yahweh, 1 and who is a rock except our God? 1
2 Samuel 23:3The God of Israel spoke, 1 the Rock of Israel said to me, 1 'The one who rules righteously over men, 1 who rules in the fear of God. 1
Psalms 46:1God is our refuge and strength, 1 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 →