Ezekiel 33:31
Then they come to you as a group, sit down right in front of you as if they were my people, hear your words and then they don't do what you say because they're seeking only their own desires, they pursue ill-gotten profits, and they keep following their own self-interests.
Psalm 78:36-37
But they deceived him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.
Isaiah 29:13
Then the Lord said: "Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, worship of me has become merely like rules taught by human beings.
Ezekiel 8:1
In the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, I had just sat down in my house, with the elders of Judah seated in front of me. All of a sudden, the hand of the Lord GOD touched me
Matthew 13:22
As for what was sown among the thorn bushes, this is the person who hears the word, but the worries of life and the deceitful pleasures of wealth choke the word so that it can't produce a crop.
Luke 6:48-49
They are like a person building a house, who dug a deep hole to lay the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the floodwaters pushed against that house but couldn't shake it, because it had been founded on the rock.
Luke 11:28
But he said, "Instead, how blessed are those who hear God's word and obey it!"
James 1:22-24
Keep on being obedient to the word, and not merely being hearers who deceive themselves.
Deuteronomy 5:28-29
"The LORD heard what you said. He told me: "I've heard what this people said. Everything they said was good.
Isaiah 28:13
So, then, the message from the LORD to them will become: "Do this and do that, do this and do that, line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there," so that they will go, but fall backward, and be injured, snared, and captured.
Jeremiah 6:16-17
This is what the LORD says: "Stand beside the roads and watch. Ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is. Walk in it and find rest for yourselves. But they said, "We won't walk in it!'
Jeremiah 23:33-38
"Jeremiah, when these people, the prophet, or a priest ask you, "What is the oracle of the LORD?' say to them, "You are the burden, and I'll cast you out,'" declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 43:1-7
When Jeremiah had finished telling all the people all the words that the LORD their God had sent him to tell them that is, all these words
Jeremiah 44:16
"As for the message that you reported to us in the name of the LORD, we won't listen to you!
Ezekiel 14:1
Later, some men from the elders of Israel came to visit me. After they had sat down in my presence,
Ezekiel 20:1-32
On the seventh year, on the tenth day of the fifth month, men came from the elders of Israel to seek the LORD. They sat down in front of me.
Ezekiel 22:27
""I'm constantly being profaned among them. Her princes within her are like wolves tearing their prey apart. They shed blood, destroying souls, and make unjust gain.
Matthew 6:24
"No one can serve two masters, because either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches!"
Matthew 7:24-27
"Therefore, everyone who listens to these messages of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on a rock.
Matthew 19:22
But when the young man heard this statement he went away sad, because he had many possessions.
Luke 8:21
But he answered those people, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear a message from God and heed it."
Luke 10:39
She had a sister named Mary, who sat down at the Lord's feet and kept listening to what he was saying.
Luke 12:15-21
Then he told them, "Be careful to guard yourselves against every kind of greed, because a person's life doesn't consist of the amount of possessions he has."
Luke 16:14
Now the Pharisees, who love money, had been listening to all this and began to ridicule Jesus.
Acts 10:33
So I sent for you immediately, and it was good of you to come. All of us are here now in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has ordered you to say."
Ephesians 5:5
For you know very well that no immoral or impure person, or anyone who is greedy (that is, an idolater), has an inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God.
1 Timothy 6:9-10
But people who want to get rich keep toppling into temptation and are trapped by many stupid and harmful desires that plunge them into destruction and ruin.
James 2:14-16
What good does it do, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith but does not prove it with actions? This kind of faith cannot save him, can it?
1 John 3:17-18
Whoever has earthly possessions and notices a brother in need and yet withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God be present in him?