Matthew 7:26

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not do them will be like a stupid (foolish) man who built his house upon the sand.

Cross References

Job 22:16

Men who were snatched away before their time, whose foundations were poured out like a stream [during the flood]?

Proverbs 14:1

EVERY WISE woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken [captive]. Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord, and what wisdom and broad, full intelligence is in them?

Matthew 7:24

So everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts upon them [obeying them] will be like a sensible (prudent, practical, wise) man who built his house upon the rock.

Matthew 7:25

And the rain fell and the floods came and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.

Matthew 7:27

And the rain fell and the floods came and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell–and great and complete was the fall of it.

Luke 6:49

But he who merely hears and does not practice doing My words is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation, against which the torrent burst, and immediately it collapsed and fell, and the breaking and ruin of that house was great.

James 2:20

Are you willing to be shown [proof], you foolish (unproductive, spiritually deficient) fellow, that faith apart from [good] works is inactive and ineffective and worthless?

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says, I did promise that your house and that of your father [forefather Aaron] should go in and out before Me forever. But now the Lord says, Be it far from Me. For those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.