Matthew 7:26
Good News Translation
"But anyone who hears these words of mine and does not obey them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

New Revised Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
Anyone who hears my teachings and doesn't obey them is like a foolish person who built a house on sand.

New American Bible
And everyone who listens to these words of mine but does not act on them will be like a fool who built his house on sand.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And every one that heareth these my words and doth them not, shall be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And every one that heareth these my words and doth them not, shall be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand,

doeth.

1 Samuel 2:30 Wherefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should minister in my sight, for ever. But now saith the Lord: Far be this from me: but whosoever shall glorify me, him will I glorify: but they that despise me, shall be despised.

Proverbs 14:1 A wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish will pull down with her hands that also which is built.

Jeremiah 8:9 The wise men are confounded, they are dismayed, and taken: for they have cast away the word of the Lord, and there is no wisdom in them.

Luke 6:49 But he that heareth and doth not is like to a man building his house upon the earth without a foundation: against which the stream beat vehemently. And immediately it fell: and the ruin of that house was great.

James 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

Context
The House on the Rock
25And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a rock. 26And every one that heareth these my words and doth them not, shall be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand, 27And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof.…
Cross References
Job 22:16
Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.

Matthew 7:24
Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock,

Matthew 7:25
And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a rock.

Matthew 7:27
And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof.

Matthew 7:25
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