45 The good person out of the good treasury of his heart brings forth good, and the evil person out of his[a] evil treasury[b] brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

46 “And why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I tell you?[c]

The Sermon on the Plain: Two Houses and Two Foundations

47 “Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and does them—I will show you what he is like:

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 6:45 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  2. Luke 6:45 The word “treasury” here is an understood repetition from earlier in the verse
  3. Luke 6:46 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation