47 Everyone that comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show YOU whom he is like:+

48 He is like a man building a house, who dug and went down deep and laid a foundation upon the rock-mass. Consequently, when a flood+ arose, the river dashed against that house, but was not strong enough to shake it, because of its being well built.+

25 But he who peers* into the perfect law+ that belongs to freedom and who persists in [it], this [man], because he has become, not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work,+ will be happy+ in his doing [it].