^{46 Ref} Why do you say to me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

^{47 Ref} Everyone who comes to me and gives ear to my words and does them, I will make clear to you what he is like:

^{48 Ref} He is like a man building a house, who went deep and put the base of it on a rock; and when the water came up and the river was driving against that house, it was not moved, because the building was good.

^{49 Ref} But he who gives hearing, without doing, is like a man building a house on the earth without a base for it; and when the force of the river came against it, straight away it came down; and the destruction of that house was great.