Luke 6:49

New Living Translation

But anyone who hears and doesn’t obey is like a person who builds a house right on the ground, without a foundation. When the floods sweep down against that house, it will collapse into a heap of ruins.”

Cross References

Proverbs 28:18

The blameless will be rescued from harm, but the crooked will be suddenly destroyed.

Ezekiel 33:31

So my people come pretending to be sincere and sit before you. They listen to your words, but they have no intention of doing what you say. Their mouths are full of lustful words, and their hearts seek only after money.

Hosea 4:14

But why should I punish them for their prostitution and adultery? For your men are doing the same thing, sinning with whores and shrine prostitutes. O foolish people! You refuse to understand, so you will be destroyed.

Matthew 23:3

So practice and obey whatever they tell you, but don’t follow their example. For they don’t practice what they teach.

Matthew 24:10

And many will turn away from me and betray and hate each other.

Mark 4:17

But since they don’t have deep roots, they don’t last long. They fall away as soon as they have problems or are persecuted for believing God’s word.

Luke 12:47

“And a servant who knows what the master wants, but isn’t prepared and doesn’t carry out those instructions, will be severely punished.

Luke 19:14

But his people hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want him to be our king.’

Luke 19:27

And as for these enemies of mine who didn’t want me to be their king—bring them in and execute them right here in front of me.’”

Luke 6:46

“So why do you keep calling me ‘Lord, Lord!’ when you don’t do what I say?

Luke 6:48

It is like a person building a house who digs deep and lays the foundation on solid rock. When the floodwaters rise and break against that house, it stands firm because it is well built.

Luke 7:1

When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people, he returned to Capernaum.

John 15:2

He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.

Acts 20:29

I know that false teachers, like vicious wolves, will come in among you after I leave, not sparing the flock.

Acts 26:11

Many times I had them punished in the synagogues to get them to curse Jesus. I was so violently opposed to them that I even chased them down in foreign cities.

1 Thessalonians 3:5

That is why, when I could bear it no longer, I sent Timothy to find out whether your faith was still strong. I was afraid that the tempter had gotten the best of you and that our work had been useless.

2 Peter 2:20

And when people escape from the wickedness of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and then get tangled up and enslaved by sin again, they are worse off than before.

1 John 2:19

These people left our churches, but they never really belonged with us; otherwise they would have stayed with us. When they left, it proved that they did not belong with us.