But he who hears, and does not do, is like a man who built a house upon the earth without a foundation; against which the stream beat furiously, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
Therefore the LORD God of Israel says, I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me for ever: 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.