Ezekiel 33:31

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Summary

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.

As the people cometh

Acts 10:33

They sit before thee as my people

For with

1 John 3:17

Shew much love

Isaiah 28:13

Jeremiah 23:33

Luke 16:14

But their

General references

Bible References

As the people cometh

In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, I was sitting in my house and the elders of Judah were sitting in front of me, and there the hand of the Lord God came down on me.

Some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat down in front of me.

In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, some of Israel’s elders came to consult the Lord, and they sat down in front of me.

She had a sister named Mary, who also sat at the Lord’s feet and was listening to what He said.

Therefore I immediately sent for you, and you did the right thing in coming. So we are all present before God, to hear everything you have been commanded by the Lord.”

They sit before thee as my people

This is what the Lord says:

Stand by the roadways and look.
Ask about the ancient paths:
Which is the way to what is good?
Then take it
and find rest for yourselves.
But they protested, “We won’t!”

When Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the people all the words of the Lord their God—all these words the Lord their God had sent him to give them—

“As for the word you spoke to us in the name of Yahweh, we are not going to listen to you!

“Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them will be like a sensible man who built his house on the rock.

He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the river crashed against that house and couldn’t shake it, because it was well built.

But He replied to them, “My mother and My brothers are those who hear and do the word of God.”

He said, “Even more, those who hear the word of God and keep it are blessed!”

But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

For with

“The Lord heard your words when you spoke to me. He said to me, ‘I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. Everything they have said is right.

But they deceived Him with their mouths,
they lied to Him with their tongues,

The Lord said:

Because these people approach Me with their mouths
to honor Me with lip-service—
yet their hearts are far from Me,
and their worship consists of man-made rules
learned by rote—

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can his faith save him?

If anyone has this world’s goods and sees his brother in need but closes his eyes to his need—how can God’s love reside in him?

Shew much love

Then the word of the Lord came to them:
“Law after law, law after law,
line after line, line after line,
a little here, a little there,”

so they go stumbling backward,
to be broken, trapped, and captured.

“Now when these people or a prophet or a priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the Lord?’ you will respond to them: What is the burden? I will throw you away”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and scoffing at Him.

But their

“No one can be a slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and of money.

Now the one sown among the thorns—this is one who hears the word, but the worries of this age and the seduction of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

When the young man heard that command, he went away grieving, because he had many possessions.

He then told them, “Watch out and be on guard against all greed because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.”

For know and recognize this: Every sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God.

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.

General references

He said to them, “Spend the night here, and I will give you the answer the Lord tells me.” So the officials of Moab stayed with Balaam.

Apply yourself to discipline
and listen to words of knowledge.

He said to Him, “Teacher, I have kept all these from my youth.”

Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror.