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I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them:
Luke 6:47 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.
  • KJV Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
  • NKJV Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like:
  • NASB Everyone who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them, I will show you whom he is like:
  • NLT I will show you what it’s like when someone comes to me, listens to my teaching, and then follows it.

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Quick answer

Jesus promises to reveal what the person who comes, hears, and obeys Him is like. Coming to Him and doing His words go together.

Overview

This verse introduces the closing parable of the sermon, defining the true disciple by three marks: coming to Jesus, hearing His words, and doing them. Hearing alone is insufficient; obedience is essential. Coming to Christ in faith is the foundation from which obedient action flows.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 29

  • Jas 1:22–25Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
  • Matt 7:24–27Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
  • Luke 11:28But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
  • John 14:15If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
  • Jas 4:17Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
  • Matt 12:50For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
  • Rom 2:7–10To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.
  • John 13:17If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
  • John 14:21–24Whoever 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.”
  • 1 Pet 2:4As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,
  • Heb 5:9And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him
  • John 15:9–14As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.
  • 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.
  • 1 Jn 3:7Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.
  • Rev 22:14Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
  • John 10:27My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
  • 2 Pet 1:10Therefore, brothers, strive to make your calling and election sure. For if you practice these things you will never stumble,
  • John 6:44–45“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
  • Isa 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.
  • 1 Jn 2:29If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
  • Matt 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!”
  • 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.
  • John 6:37Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
  • John 5:40yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.
  • John 9:27–28He 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?”
  • 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.”
  • 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.
  • Matt 11:28–29Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
  • 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.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Luke videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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Christ at the center

Luke shows Jesus the Savior for all — outsiders, the poor, the nations — the one who, on the Emmaus road, opened all the Scriptures to show they were about himself.

How Luke 6:47 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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