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 33:31They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
• Jas 1:22–26But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
• 2 Pet 1:5–9Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
• 1 Jn 2:3–4This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
• Matt 13:20–22What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;
• Matt 23:3All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.
• Luke 10:12–16I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.
• John 15:2Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
• Luke 12:47That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
• Jas 2:17–26Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
• Prov 28:18Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
• Luke 6:46“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?
• Luke 8:5–7“The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.
• Mark 4:17They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
• Luke 11:24–26The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’
• Matt 12:43–45When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn’t find it.
• Heb 10:26–29For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
• Matt 21:29–30He answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went.
• 2 Pet 2:20For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
• Acts 26:11Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
• Matt 24:10Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.
• 1 Th 3:5For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
• Acts 20:29For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
• Luke 19:14But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’
• Luke 19:27But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’”
• Jer 44:16–17“As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.
• Hos 4:14I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.

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