Ezekiel 33:31 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

³¹ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people, and they hear the words you say, but they will not do them; for with their mouths they show much love, but their hearts go after and are set on their [idolatrous greed for] gain.

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but do them not; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their gain.

Common English Bible

³¹ So they come to you as people do, and they sit before you as my people. They listen to your words, but they refuse to do them. Though they speak of their longing for me, they act out of their own interests and opinions.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ And they come to you, as if the people were entering, and my people sit before you. And they listen to your words, but they do not do them. For they turn them into a song for their mouth, but their heart pursues their own avarice.

Ezekiel 33:31 Tagairtí Cros

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 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 the world 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 the Lord'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 fornicator or impure person, or one who is greedy (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.