Matthew 7:24–27

Hearing and Doing

7:24 “Everyone27 who hears these words of mine and does them is like28 a wise man29 who built his house on rock. 7:25 The rain fell, the flood30 came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because it had been founded on rock. 7:26 Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 7:27 The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed; it was utterly destroyed!”31

27	tn Grk “Therefore everyone.” Here οὖν (oun) has not been translated.
28	tn Grk “will be like.” The same phrase occurs in v. 26.
29	tn Here and in v. 26 the Greek text reads ἀνήρ (anēr), while the parallel account in Luke 6:47–49 uses ἄνθρωπος (anthrōpos) in vv. 48 and 49.
30	tn Grk “the rivers.”
31	tn Grk “and great was its fall.”