¹⁷ Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.^(A)

The Wise and Foolish Builders^(A)

⁴⁶ “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’^(B) and do not do what I say?^{(C) 47} As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice,^(D) I will show you what they are like. ⁴⁸ They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.

¹⁷ If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.^(A)