08 September, 2013

The wise and foolish builders

So everyone who hears these words of Mine
and acts upon them [obeying them]
will be like a sensible (prudent, practical, wise) man
who built his house upon the rock.

And the rain fell and the floods came
and the winds blew and beat against that house;
yet it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.

And everyone who hears these words of Mine
and does not do them will be like a stupid
(foolish) man who built his house upon the sand.

And the rain fell and the floods came
and the winds blew and beat against that house,
and it fell—and great and complete was the fall of it.

When Jesus had finished these sayings
[the Sermon on the Mount],
the crowds were astonished and overwhelmed
with bewildered wonder at His teaching,
For He was teaching as One
Who had [and was] authority, and not as [did] the scribes.

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