Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Luke 6:47, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- James 1:22
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
- Matthew 7:24
Therefore 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 11:28
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
- John 14:15
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
- James 4:17
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
- Matthew 12:50
For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
- Romans 2:7
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
- John 13:17
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
- John 14:21
He 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 w…
- 1 Peter 2:4
To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
- Hebrews 5:9
And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
- John 15:9
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
More to meet God in Luke
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.