Luke 11:28

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

World English Bible

In The King James Version

But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

In Context

27It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!”

29When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.

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Cross References

Psalms 112:1Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who delights greatly in his commandments.

Psalms 128:1Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways.

Matthew 7:21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Luke 6:47Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words and does them, I will show you who he is like.

John 13:17If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

1 John 3:21Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

Matthew Henry on Luke 11:28-29

Praise and a Blessing. 27 And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. 28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it. We had not this passage in the other evangelists, nor can we tack it, as Dr. Hammond does, to that of Christ's mother and brethren desiring to speak with him (for this evangelist also has related that in ch. viii. 19… Read the whole commentary →

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