Ezekiel 33:31

Catholic Public Domain Version

And they come to you, as if the people were entering, and my people sit before you. And they listen to your words, but they do not do them. For they turn them into a song for their mouth, but their heart pursues their own avarice.

Cross References

Ezra 4:14

But, remembering the salt that we have eaten in the palace, and because we are led to believe that it a crime to see the king harmed, we have therefore sent and reported to the king,

Isaiah 28:13

And so, the word of the Lord to them will be: "Command, and command again; command, and command again; expect, and expect again; a little here, and a little there," so that they may go forward and fall backward, and so that they may be broken and ensnared and captured.

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord said: Since this people have drawn near to me only with their mouth, and their lips glorify me while their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is based on the commandments and doctrines of men,

Isaiah 42:20

You who see many things, will you not keep them? You who have open ears, will you not listen?

Jeremiah 12:2

You planted them, and they took root. They are prospering and bearing fruit. You are near to their mouths, but far from their hearts.

Jeremiah 42:21

And I have announced it to you this day, and you have not heeded the voice of the Lord your God, concerning everything about which he has sent me to you.

Jeremiah 44:16

"Concerning the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not heed you.

Ezekiel 14:1

And men among the elders of Israel came to me, and they sat down before me.

Ezekiel 22:13

Behold, I have clapped my hands over your avarice, which you have worked, and over the blood that has been shed in your midst.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her leaders in her midst are like wolves seizing the prey: to shed blood, and to perish souls, and to continually pursue profit with avarice.

Ezekiel 8:1

And it happened that, in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me, and the hand of the Lord God fell upon me there.

Matthew 13:22

And whoever has received the seed among thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the falseness of riches suffocate the word, and he is effectively without fruit.

Matthew 19:22

And when the young man had heard this word, he went away sad, for he had many possessions.

Matthew 6:24

No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will have hatred for the one, and love the other, or he will persevere with the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

Luke 10:39

And she had a sister, named Mary, who, while sitting beside the Lord's feet, was listening to his word.

Luke 11:28

Then he said, "Yes, but moreover: blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it."

Luke 16:14

But the Pharisees, who were greedy, were listening to all these things. And they ridiculed him.

Luke 8:21

And in response, he said to them, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it."

Acts 10:33

And so, I promptly sent for you. And you have done well in coming here. Therefore, all of us are now present in your sight to hear all the things that were taught to you by the Lord."

Ephesians 5:5

For know and understand this: no one who is a fornicator, or lustful, or rapacious (for these are a kind of service to idols) holds an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.