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Why do you say to me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

47

Everyone who comes to me and gives ear to my words and does them, I will make clear to you what he is like:

48

He is like a man building a house, who went deep and put the base of it on a rock and when the water came up and the river was driving against that house, it was not moved, because the building was good.

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But he who gives hearing, without doing, is like a man building a house on the earth without a base for it and when the force of the river came against it, straight away it came down and the destruction of that house was great.