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New Living Translation (NLT)

Luke 6
⁴⁷ I will show you what it’s like when someone comes to me, listens to my teaching, and then follows it.
⁴⁸ It is like a person building a house who digs deep and lays the foundation on solid rock. When the floodwaters rise and break against that house, it stands firm because it is well built.
⁴⁹ But anyone who hears and doesn’t obey is like a person who builds a house without a foundation. When the floods sweep down against that house, it will collapse into a heap of ruins.”
Luke 7
¹ When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people, he returned to Capernaum.
² At that time the highly valued slave of a Roman officer was sick and near death.
³ When the officer heard about Jesus, he sent some respected Jewish elders to ask him to come and heal his slave.
⁴ So they earnestly begged Jesus to help the man. “If anyone deserves your help, he does,” they said,
⁵ “for he loves the Jewish people and even built a synagogue for us.”
⁶ So Jesus went with them. But just before they arrived at the house, the officer sent some friends to say, “Lord, don’t trouble yourself by coming to my home, for I am not worthy of such an honor.
⁷ I am not even worthy to come and meet you. Just say the word from where you are, and my servant will be healed.
⁸ I know this because I am under the authority of my superior officers, and I have authority over my soldiers. I only need to say, ‘Go,’ and they go, or ‘Come,’ and they come. And if I say to my slaves, ‘Do this,’ they do it.”