Build Your House on the Rock

²⁴ “Therefore ^(A)everyone who hears these words of Mine and does them, ^[a]may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. ²⁵ And the rain descended, and the rivers came, and the winds blew and fell against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. ²⁶ And everyone hearing these words of Mine and not doing them, may be compared to a foolish man who built his house on the sand. ²⁷ And the rain descended, and the rivers came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”

^28 [b](B)Now it happened that when Jesus had finished these words, ^(C)the crowds were astonished at His teaching; ²⁹ for He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.

²⁸ But He said, “On the contrary, blessed are ^(A)those who hear the word of God and keep it.”

²⁵ But one who looks intently at the perfect law, ^(A)the law of freedom, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man will be ^(B)blessed in ^[a]what he does.