Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse XIII · §7 · John Wesley

The foolish man

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And everyone that hears these sayings of mine and does not do them, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand: Matthew 7:26.

1771 text

And every one that heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

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The last of the thirteen sermons on the Sermon on the Mount, on Matthew 7:21-27: not everyone who says Lord, Lord, and the wise man who builds on the rock.

EditionPrinted in Wesley's 1771 Works, which do not say when he preached it

Wesley's own sermon in updated English wording. The 1771 panel is the text of the Works Wesley himself had printed in 1771. It is public domain.

Reference

Sermon 33 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 7:21-27.

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