Matthew 7:24

KJV

Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

— Matthew 7:24, King James Version
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Study Note

The parable of the two builders closes the Sermon on the Mount and sharpens its entire ethical demand to a single hinge: hearing these words and doing them versus hearing and not doing. Jesus places himself as the authoritative lawgiver — 'these sayings of mine' — a first-person self-claim without parallel in Moses or the prophets. The rock-foundation imagery echoes Isaiah 28:16's cornerstone promise and Psalm 1's contrast between the righteous who prosper and the wicked who perish, situating the parable within Israel's wisdom tradition. Matthew's version specifies rain, floods, and winds — plausibly evoking the Palestinian rainy-season flash floods that would devastate sandy-soil construction — giving the metaphor vivid local realism.

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ASV

Every one therefore that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man, who built his house upon the rock:

YLT

`Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock;

BBE

Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;

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