Skip to main content

Luke 6:49

But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.

KJV

ὁ δὲ ἀκούσας καὶ μὴ ποιήσας ὅμοιός ἐστιν ἀνθρώπῳ οἰκοδομήσαντι οἰκίαν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν χωρὶς θεμελίου, ᾗ προσέρηξεν ὁ ποταμός, καὶ εὐθὺς συνέπεσεν, καὶ ἐγένετο τὸ ῥῆγμα τῆς οἰκίας ἐκείνης μέγα.

Greek NT

Qui autem audit, et non facit, similis est homini ædificanti domum suam super terram sine fundamento : in quam illisus est fluvius, et continuo cecidit : et facta est ruina domus illius magna.

Vulgate

But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that built a house upon the earth without a foundation; against which the stream brake, and straightway it fell in; and the ruin of that house was great.

ASV

But he that heareth and doth not is like to a man building his house upon the earth without a foundation: against which the stream beat vehemently. And immediately it fell: and the ruin of that house was great.

Douay-Rheims

Open in reader with connections →

In the original Greek

24 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
γῆ
ge
noun · 251×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εὐθέως
eutheos
adverb · 85×
θεμέλιος
themelios
noun · 16×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μέγας
megas
adjective · 244×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
οἰκία
oikia
noun · 94×
οἰκοδομέω
oikodomeo
verb · 41×
πίπτω
pipto
verb · 89×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
ποταμός
potamos
noun · 17×
προσρήγνυμι
prosregnumi
verb · 2×
χωρίς
choris
adverb · 41×
ἀκούω
akouo
verb · 427×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἐκεῖνος
ekeinos
demonstrative · 240×
ἐπί
epi
preposition · 888×
o
article · 19778×
ὅμοιος
omoios
adjective · 45×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ῥῆγμα
regma
noun · 1×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: εὐθὺς συνέπεσεν | WH/Treg/NIV: εὐθὺς συνέπεσεν | RP: εὐθὲως ἔπεσεν
  • εὐθὺς συνέπεσενSBLGNT
  • εὐθὺς συνέπεσενWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • εὐθὲως ἔπεσενRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Parable

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1John 2:3 — And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
  • 2Pet 1:5 — And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
  • Ezek 33:31 — And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth
  • Jas 1:22 — But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
  • Jas 2:14 — What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
  • Jas 2:17 — Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
  • John 15:2 — Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
  • Luke 6:46 — And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
  • Luke 8:5 — A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
  • Luke 10:12 — But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.
  • Luke 12:47 — And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
  • Mark 4:17 — And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended.
  • Matt 7:26 — And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
  • Matt 13:20 — But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
  • Matt 23:3 — All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
  • Prov 28:18 — Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.