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 33:31And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
• Jas 1:22–26But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
• 2 Pet 1:5–9And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
• 1 Jn 2:3–4And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
• Matt 13:20–22But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
• Matt 23:3All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
• Luke 10:12–16But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.
• John 15:2Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
• Luke 12:47And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
• Jas 2:17–26Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
• Prov 28:18Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
• Luke 6:46And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
• Luke 8:5–7A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
• Mark 4:17And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended.
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
• Luke 11:24–26When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
• Matt 12:43–45When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
• Heb 10:26–29For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
• Matt 21:29–30He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
• 2 Pet 2:20For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
• Acts 26:11And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
• Matt 24:10And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
• 1 Th 3:5For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
• Acts 20:29For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
• Luke 19:14But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
• Luke 19:27But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
• Jer 44:16–17As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
• Hos 4:14I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.

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