The Wise and the Foolish Builders

The Wise and the Foolish Builders was a Parable of Jesus which He closed the Sermon on the Mount with as recorded in Matthew 7:24-27.

The parable teaches that faith built on the of foundation of doing God's will is more likely to stand as opposed to faith built on a foundation of merely just believing, but not doing God's will. Once one fails to enact any of God's will along with their faith, they endanger themselves with hellfire (as taught in the passages preceding the parable).

The Parable

"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock. Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."