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Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
Luke 6:47 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.
  • BSB I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them:
  • 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 1:22–25But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
  • Matt 7:24–27Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
  • Luke 11:28But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
  • John 14:15If ye love me, keep my commandments.
  • Jas 4:17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
  • Matt 12:50For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
  • Rom 2:7–10To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
  • John 13:17If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
  • John 14:21–24He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
  • 1 Pet 2:4To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
  • Heb 5:9And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
  • John 15:9–14As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
  • Luke 14:26If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
  • 1 Jn 3:7Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
  • Rev 22:14Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
  • John 10:27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
  • 2 Pet 1:10Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
  • John 6:44–45No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
  • Isa 55:3Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
  • 1 Jn 2:29If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
  • Matt 17:5While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
  • Luke 8:13They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
  • John 6:37All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
  • John 5:40And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
  • John 9:27–28He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples?
  • Luke 8:8And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
  • John 6:35And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
  • Matt 11:28–29Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
  • John 8:52Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.

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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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