Luke 6:49 · WEB
“But he who hears, and doesn't do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."”
— Luke 6:49
Era
Life of Jesus (~30 AD)
Emotion
anxious
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narrative
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