Luke 6:49

The one who hears Jesus but does not obey is like a man who built without a foundation, and his house collapsed in ruin. Hearing without doing leads to disaster.

Cross-references · 28

• Ezek 33:31So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
• Jas 1:22–26Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
• 2 Pet 1:5–9For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;
• 1 Jn 2:3–4By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.
• Matt 13:20–22The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.
• Matt 23:3So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.
• Luke 10:12–16I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.
• John 15:2He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.
• Luke 12:47That servant who knows his master’s will but does not get ready or follow his instructions will be beaten with many blows.
• Jas 2:17–26So too, faith by itself, if it does not result in action, is dead.
• Prov 28:18He who walks with integrity will be kept safe, but whoever is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall.
• Luke 6:46Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I say?
• Luke 8:5–7“A farmer went out to sow his seed. And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, where it was trampled, and the birds of the air devoured it.
• Mark 4:17But they themselves have no root, and they remain for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.
• Luke 11:24–26When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’
• Matt 12:43–45When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.
• Heb 10:26–29If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,
• Matt 21:29–30‘I will not,’ he replied. But later he changed his mind and went.
• 2 Pet 2:20If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.
• Acts 26:11I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.
• Matt 24:10At that time many will fall away and will betray and hate one another,
• 1 Th 3:5For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter had somehow tempted you and caused our labor to be in vain.
• Acts 20:29I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.
• Luke 19:14But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
• Luke 19:27And these enemies of mine who were unwilling for me to rule over them, bring them here and slay them in front of me.’”
• Jer 44:16–17“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!
• Hos 4:14I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.

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