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Luke 6:47

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47 As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like.
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Luke 6:47 in Other Translations

KJV
47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
ESV
47 Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like:
NLT
47 I will show you what it’s like when someone comes to me, listens to my teaching, and then follows it.
MSG
47 These words I speak to you are not mere additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living. They are foundation words, words to build a life on.
CSB
47 I will show you what someone is like who comes to Me, hears My words, and acts on them:

Luke 6:47 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 6:47

Whosoever cometh to me
To be a disciple and follower:

and heareth my sayings, and doth them;
(See Gill on Matthew 7:24).

I will show you to whom he is like;
or "to what thing he is like"; so the Syriac and Arabic versions; though what follows seems better to agree with person than thing.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Luke 6:47 In-Context

45 A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
46 “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?
47 As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, 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.
49 But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete.”

Cross References 1

  • 1. Luke 8:21; Luke 11:28; James 1:22-25
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