he is like a man building a house, who digged and went deep, and laid a foundation upon the rock: and when a flood arose, the stream brake against that house, and could not shake it: because it had been well builded.

But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that built a house upon the earth without a foundation; against which the stream brake, and straightway it fell in; and the ruin of that house was great.

that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

Lest haply, when he hath laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all that behold begin to mock him,