Matthew 7:26

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand;

Cross References

Job 22:16

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

Proverbs 14:1

Wisdom builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.

Jeremiah 8:9

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

Matthew 7:24

“Every one then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house upon the rock;

Matthew 7:25

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

Matthew 7:27

and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it.”

Luke 6:49

But he who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation; against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

James 2:20

Do you want to be shown, you shallow man, that faith apart from works is barren?

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore the Lord the God of Israel declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me for ever’; 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 lightly esteemed.