Ezekiel 33:31

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not obey them. For flattery is on their lips, but their heart is set on their gain.

Cross References

Ezra 4:14

Now because we share the salt of the palace and it is not fitting for us to witness the king’s dishonor, therefore we send and inform the king,

Psalm 119:36

Turn my heart to your decrees and not to selfish gain.

Isaiah 28:13

Therefore the word of the Lord will be to them, “Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little,” in order that they may go and fall backward and be broken and snared and taken.

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord said: Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote,

Isaiah 42:20

He sees many things, but he does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear.

Jeremiah 12:2

You plant them, and they take root; they grow and bring forth fruit; you are near in their mouths yet far from their hearts.

Jeremiah 42:21

So I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God in anything that he sent me to tell you.

Jeremiah 44:16

“As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we are not going to listen to you.

Ezekiel 14:1

Certain elders of Israel came to me and sat down before me.

Ezekiel 22:13

See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest gain you have made and at the blood that has been shed within you.

Ezekiel 22:27

Its officials within it are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.

Ezekiel 8:1

In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord God fell upon me there.

Matthew 13:22

As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing.

Matthew 19:22

When the young man heard this word, he went away grieving, for he had many possessions.

Matthew 6:24

“No one can serve two masters, for a slave will either hate the one and love the other or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

Luke 10:39

She had a sister named Mary, who sat at Jesus’s feet and listened to what he was saying.

Luke 11:28

But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”

Luke 16:14

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all this, and they ridiculed him.

Luke 8:21

But he said to them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”

Acts 10:33

Therefore I sent for you immediately, and you have been kind enough to come. So now all of us are here in the presence of God to listen to all that the Lord has commanded you to say.”

Ephesians 5:5

Be sure of this, that no sexually immoral or impure person or one who is greedy (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.