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46  Why tis · de do you call kaleō me egō, ‘ Lord kyrios, Lord kyrios,’ and kai do not ou do poieō what hos I say legō? 47 Everyone pas who ho comes erchomai to pros me egō and kai hears akouō my egō · ho words logos and kai does poieō them autos I will show hypodeiknymi you hymeis whom tis he is eimi like homoios: 48 he is eimi like homoios a man anthrōpos building oikodomeō a house oikia, who hos dug skaptō · kai deep bathunō and kai laid tithēmi the foundation themelios on epi · ho bedrock petra; when a flood plēmmyra · de arose ginomai, the ho river potamos broke prosrēssō against · ho that ekeinos house oikia but kai could ischuō not ou shake saleuō it autos, because dia · ho it autos had been well kalōs built oikodomeō. 49 But de the ho one who hears akouō and kai does not do poieō them is eimi like homoios a man anthrōpos building oikodomeō a house oikia on epi the ho ground without chōris a foundation themelios; when hos the ho river potamos burst prosrēssō against it, · kai immediately it fell sympiptō, and kai the ho ruin rhēgma of ho that ekeinos house oikia was ginomai great megas.”

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Build Your House on the Rock

46 (A)“Why (B)do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? 47 (C)Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: 48 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.[a] 49 (D)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 (E)the ruin of that house was great.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 6:48 Some manuscripts founded upon the rock