Matthew 7:26

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

Cross References

Job 22:16

They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away by a flood.

Proverbs 14:1

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

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise shall be put to shame, they shall be dismayed and taken; since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what wisdom is in them?

Matthew 7:24

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.

Matthew 7:25

The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock.

Matthew 7:27

The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its fall!”

Luke 6:49

But the one who hears and does not act is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against it, immediately it fell, and great was the ruin of that house.”

James 2:20

Do you want to be shown, you senseless person, that faith apart from works is barren?

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore the Lord the God of Israel declares: ‘I promised that your family and the family of your ancestor should go in and out before me forever’; but now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be treated with contempt.