Verse 26

`And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand;

Referenced Verses

  • Luke 6:49 : 49 `And he who heard and did not, is like to a man having builded a house upon the earth, without a foundation, against which the stream brake forth, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house became great.'
  • Jas 2:20 : 20 And dost thou wish to know, O vain man, that the faith apart from the works is dead?
  • Jer 8:9 : 9 Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what -- have they?
  • 1 Sam 2:30 : 30 `Therefore -- the affirmation of Jehovah, God of Israel -- I certainly said, Thy house and the house of thy father, do walk up and down before Me to the age; and now -- the affirmation of Jehovah -- Far be it from Me! for he who is honouring Me, I honour, and those despising Me, are lightly esteemed.
  • Prov 14:1 : 1 Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down.