Matthew 7:26
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.
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- Luke 6:49 : 49 But he who hears, and doesn't do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."
- Jas 2:20 : 20 But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
- Jer 8:9 : 9 The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what kind of wisdom is in them?
- 1 Sam 2:30 : 30 "Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.' But now Yahweh says, 'Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
- Prov 14:1 : 1 Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
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19 Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.
20 Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.
21 Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
22 Many will tell me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?'
23 Then I will tell them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.'
24 "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.
25 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.
- Luke 6:46-494 verses85%
46 "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things which I say?
47 Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.
48 He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.
49 But he who hears, and doesn't do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."
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27 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."
- Luke 14:27-304 verses71%
27 Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple.
28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
29 Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,
30 saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.'
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16 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"
- Jas 1:22-232 verses70%
22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
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13 Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.
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44 He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whoever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust."
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2 Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown down."
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21 'Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:
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1 Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
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18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust."
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33 So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.
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29 He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.
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18 "Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.
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23 If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."
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25 When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer and tell you, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'
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18 He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
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9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
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18 Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has."
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6 "Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
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15 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
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21 This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, 'Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?'
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13 But he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father didn't plant will be uprooted.
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10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.
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6 "As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down."
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14 Whoever doesn't receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.
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