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Building on a Solid Foundation

24 “Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock.

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33 God warned them of this in the Scriptures when he said,

“I am placing a stone in Jerusalem[a] that makes people stumble,
    a rock that makes them fall.
But anyone who trusts in him
    will never be disgraced.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 9:33a Greek in Zion.
  2. 9:33b Isa 8:14; 28:16 (Greek version).

and all of them drank the same spiritual water. For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that rock was Christ.

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And,

“He is the stone that makes people stumble,
    the rock that makes them fall.”[a]

They stumble because they do not obey God’s word, and so they meet the fate that was planned for them.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:8 Isa 8:14.

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