Matthew 7:24-25
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The Two Foundations
24 “Therefore,(A) everyone who hears these words(B) of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain fell, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and pounded that house. Yet it didn’t collapse, because its foundation was on the rock.
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Luke 6:47
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47 I will show you what someone is like who comes to me, hears my words, and acts on them:(A)
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Luke 11:28
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28 He said, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God(A) and keep it.”(B)
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James 1:22-25
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22 But(A) be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like someone looking at his own face[a] in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he was. 25 But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who works—this person will be blessed in what he does.(B)
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- 1:23 Or at his natural face
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