Luke 6:49

Good News Translation

But anyone who hears my words and does not obey them is like a man who built his house without laying a foundation; when the flood hit that house it fell at once—and what a terrible crash that was!”

Cross References

Proverbs 28:18

Be honest and you will be safe. If you are dishonest, you will suddenly fall.

Ezekiel 33:31

So my people crowd in to hear what you have to say, but they don't do what you tell them to do. Loving words are on their lips, but they continue their greedy ways.

Hosea 4:14

Yet I will not punish them for this, because you yourselves go off with temple prostitutes, and together with them you offer pagan sacrifices. As the proverb says, ‘A people without sense will be ruined.’

Matthew 23:3

So you must obey and follow everything they tell you to do; do not, however, imitate their actions, because they don't practice what they preach.

Matthew 24:10

Many will give up their faith at that time; they will betray one another and hate one another.

Mark 4:17

But it does not sink deep into them, and they don't last long. So when trouble or persecution comes because of the message, they give up at once.

Luke 12:47

“The servant who knows what his master wants him to do, but does not get himself ready and do it, will be punished with a heavy whipping.

Luke 19:14

Now, his own people hated him, and so they sent messengers after him to say, ‘We don't want this man to be our king.’

Luke 19:27

Now, as for those enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and kill them in my presence!’”

Luke 6:46

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and yet don't do what I tell you?

Luke 6:48

He is like a man who, in building his house, dug deep and laid the foundation on rock. The river flooded over and hit that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.

Luke 7:1

When Jesus had finished saying all these things to the people, he went to Capernaum.

John 15:2

He breaks off every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and he prunes every branch that does bear fruit, so that it will be clean and bear more fruit.

Acts 20:29

I know that after I leave, fierce wolves will come among you, and they will not spare the flock.

Acts 26:11

Many times I had them punished in the synagogues and tried to make them deny their faith. I was so furious with them that I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.

1 Thessalonians 3:5

That is why I had to send Timothy. I could not bear it any longer, so I sent him to find out about your faith. Surely it could not be that the Devil had tempted you and all our work had been for nothing!

2 Peter 2:20

If people have escaped from the corrupting forces of the world through their knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and then are again caught and conquered by them, such people are in worse condition at the end than they were at the beginning.

1 John 2:19

These people really did not belong to our fellowship, and that is why they left us; if they had belonged to our fellowship, they would have stayed with us. But they left so that it might be clear that none of them really belonged to us.