Build Your House on the Rock
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w "Why x do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do what I tell you?
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y Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like:
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he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.
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z But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and a the ruin of that house was great."
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Cross References
Malachi 1:6
"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, 'How have we despised your name?'
Matthew 7:21
Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
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Cross References
John 13:13
You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am.
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Luke 6:47 - 49
Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like:
Matthew 7:24 - 27
Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
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Cross References
Luke 6:47 - 49
Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like:
Matthew 7:24 - 27
Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 13:10 - 16
Precisely because they have misled my people, saying, 'Peace,' when there is no peace, and because, when the people build a wall, these prophets smear it with whitewash.
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Amos 6:11
For behold, the Lord commands, and the great house shall be struck down into fragments, and the little house into bits.
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