Luke 6:44-49

44 for ¹each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.

45 ²The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces ³evil, ⁴for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Build Your House on the Rock

46 ⁵"Why ⁶do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do what I tell you?

47 ⁷Everyone 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 ⁸But 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 ⁹the ruin of that house was great."

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 12:33
• 2. Matthew 12:35; Matthew 15:18, 19; [Matthew 13:52; Ephesians 4:29]
• 3. [Matthew 5:37]
• 4. Matthew 12:34
• 5. [Malachi 1:6]; See Matthew 7:21
• 6. John 13:13
• 7. For ver. 47-49, see Matthew 7:24-27
• 8. [Ezekiel 13:10-16]
• 9. Amos 6:11

Footnotes

• [a]. Some manuscripts founded upon the rock