Luke 6:47

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“I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them:”

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BSBPD

“I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them:”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Every one that cometh unto me, and heareth my words, and doeth them, I will show you to whom he is like:”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Every one who is coming unto me, and is hearing my words, and is doing them, I will shew you to whom he is like;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Luke 6:47 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.
  2. Matthew 7:24Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
  3. Matthew 11:28Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
  4. Matthew 12:50For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
  5. Matthew 17:5While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”
  6. Luke 8:8Still other seed fell on good soil, where it sprang up and produced a crop—a hundredfold.” As Jesus said this, He called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
  7. Luke 8:13The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root. They believe for a season, but in the time of testing, they fall away.
  8. Luke 11:28But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
  9. Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
  10. John 5:40yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.
  11. John 6:35Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.
  12. John 6:37Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
  13. John 6:44“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
  14. John 8:52“Now we know that You have a demon!” declared the Jews. “Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet You say that anyone who keeps Your word will never taste death.
  15. John 9:27He replied, “I already told you, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become His disciples?”
  16. John 10:27My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
  17. John 13:17If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
  18. John 14:15If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
  19. John 14:21Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
  20. John 15:9As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.
  21. Romans 2:7To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.
  22. Hebrews 5:9And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him
  23. James 1:22Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
  24. James 4:17Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.

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