Luke 6:49

But the person who hears my words and does not obey them, he is like a man who built a house on top of the ground without a foundation. When the torrent of water flowed against that house, it immediately collapsed, and the ruin of that house was complete.”

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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

48He 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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Cross References

Jeremiah 44:16They said, “About the word that you have told us in Yahweh's name—we will not listen to you.

Hosea 4:14I will not punish your daughters when they choose to commit sexual immorality, 1 nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. 1 For the men also give themselves to the prostitutes, 1 and they offer sacrifices so they can commit immoral acts with sacred prostitutes. 1 So this people who does not understand will be thrown down. 1

Matthew 13:20What was sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,

Matthew 23:3Therefore whatever they command you to do, do these things and observe them. But do not imitate their deeds, for they say things but then do not do them.

Mark 4:17They have no root in themselves, but endure for a short time. Then tribulation or persecution comes because of the word, and immediately they stumble.

Luke 8:5“A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell beside the road and it was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

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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