Matthew 7:26

Modern English Version

And everyone who hears these sayings of Mine and does not do them will be likened to a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

Cross References

Job 22:16

They were cut down before their time; their foundations were swept away by a flood.

Proverbs 14:1

The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish woman pulls it down with her hands.

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise men are ashamed; they are dismayed and caught. Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord, and what kind of wisdom do they have?

Matthew 7:24

“Whoever hears these sayings of Mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock.

Matthew 7:25

And the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house. And it did not fall, for it was founded on a rock.

Matthew 7:27

And the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house. And it fell. And its fall was great.”

Luke 6:49

But he who hears and does not obey is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently. Immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

James 2:20

But do you want to be shown, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?

1 Samuel 2:30

“Therefore the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I surely said that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before Me forever,’ but now the Lord says, ‘Far be it from Me to do so, for those who honor Me, I will honor, and those that despise Me will be humbled.