Ezekiel 33:31
Then they come to you, as if they are still my people, and they sit down in front of you. They listen to what you say, but they do not do it. They say that they love me, but in their hearts they chase dishonest profits.
Psalm 78:36-37
They flattered him with their mouths and lied to him with their tongues.
Isaiah 29:13
These people praise me with their words, said Jehovah, but they never draw near to me in their hearts (deepest thoughts). Their reverence for me comes from the repetitious tradition of men.
Ezekiel 8:1
On the fifth day of the sixth month in the sixth year, I was sitting in my home. Judah's older men were sitting in front of me. The power of the Lord Jehovah came over me.
Matthew 13:22
He that was sown among thorns hears the word. The cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
Luke 6:48-49
He is like a man building a house. He dug and laid a deep foundation upon the rock. A flood sent a stream of water against the house and could not shake it because it was well built.
Luke 11:28
He replied: More blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it.
James 1:22-24
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, who deceive themselves.
Deuteronomy 5:28-29
Jehovah heard the words you spoke to me. He told me: 'I have heard what the people said to you. Everything they said was good.
Isaiah 28:13
But the word of Jehovah to them was: Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little, that they might go and fall backward, and be broken and snared and caught.
Jeremiah 6:16-17
Jehovah says: Stand by the way [of life] and see and ask for the ancient paths. Walk in the good way and you will find rest. But you said: We will not walk in it!
Jeremiah 23:33-38
Jehovah said to me: Jeremiah, when one of my people or a prophet or a priest asks you, what is Jehovah's message? You are to say: 'You are a burden to Jehovah, and he is going to get rid of you.'
Jeremiah 43:1-7
As soon as Jeremiah, whom Jehovah their God had sent, had finished telling all the people all the words of Jehovah their God, that is, all these words,
Jeremiah 44:16
We refuse to listen to what you have told us in the name of Jehovah.
Ezekiel 14:1
Some of Israel's elders came to me and sat down in front of me.
Ezekiel 20:1-32
Seven years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylon, some of Israel's leaders came to me on the tenth day of the fifth month. They sat down and asked for a message from Jehovah.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes within her are like wolves tearing the prey, by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to get dishonest gain.
Matthew 6:24
You cannot serve two masters. You will hate one and love the other. You will be loyal to one master and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money (wealth) (material possessions).
Matthew 7:24-27
Everyone who hears my words, and does them is like a wise man that builds his house on a rock.
Matthew 19:22
But hearing these words, the young man went away grieving, for he was very wealthy.
Luke 8:21
He answered, My mother and my brother are these who hear the word of God, and do it.
Luke 10:39
Her sister Mary sat at the Lord's feet and heard his word.
Luke 12:15-21
Jesus said: Be careful, do not covet, for life does not come from your possessions.
Luke 16:14
Hearing this the Pharisees made fun of Jesus, because they loved money.
Acts 10:33
Immediately I sent for you. You have done well for you have come. We are all present before God, to hear all things that are commanded to you from God.
Ephesians 5:5
For you know this with certainty, that no fornicator, no unclean person, no covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
1 Timothy 6:9-10
Those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts. These draw men into ruin and destruction.
James 2:14-16
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith but he does not have works? Can that faith save him?
1 John 3:17-18
Whoever has this world's goods and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God dwell in him?