²² Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.^(A)

¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command you.^(A)

Hearers and Doers

²⁴ “Everyone, then, who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.^{(A) 25} The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall because it had been founded on rock. ²⁶ And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. ²⁷ The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its fall!”

¹⁶ Moses did everything just as the Lord had commanded him.

⁵ And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.

⁷ By faith Noah, warned by God about events as yet unseen, respected the warning and built an ark to save his household; by this he condemned the world and became an heir to the righteousness that is in accordance with faith.^(A)

The Faith of Abraham

⁸ By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive as an inheritance, and he set out, not knowing where he was going.^(B)

⁵ His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

^32 [a]You must diligently observe everything that I command you; do not add to it or take anything from it.^(A)

¹⁶ And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him, and the Lord shut him in.^(A)

²³ and set the bread in order on it before the Lord as the Lord had commanded Moses.^(A)