Ezekiel 33:31

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Luke 10:39

Acts 10:33

They sit before thee as my people

James 1:22

For with

James 2:14

1 John 3:17

Shew much love

Luke 16:14

But their

General references

Mark 10:20

James 1:23

Bible References

As the people cometh

And she had a sister called Mary, and she sat at the feet of the Lord and heard his word.

Immediately therefore I sent to you, and you have done well to come. Now therefore we are all present before God to hear all things which God has commanded you.

They sit before thee as my people

Every one, therefore, that hears these words of mine and performs them, I will liken to a wise man who built his house on the rock;

He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid the foundation on the rock; and when there was a flood, the stream beat against that house and could not shake it, because it was built on a rock.

And he answered and said to them, My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and perform it.

And he said, Yes indeed, blessed are those that hear the word of God and keep it.

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

For with

What is the profit, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has not works? Can faith save him?

And whoever has the goods of the world and sees his brother have need, and withholds his compassions from him, how continues the love of God in him?

Shew much love

And the Pharisees, who are avaricious, heard all these things, and derided him.

But their

No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the first, and love the other, or he will adhere to the first, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches.

And he that received seed among thorns is he that hears the word, and the cares of this life and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

And when the young man heard [this] he went away sad, for he had great possessions.

And he said to them, See, and beware of all covetousness; for one's life depends not on the abundance of his property.

For you know this, that no fornicator, or impure, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

But those who wish to be rich fall into trial and a snare, and many foolish and injurious desires, which plunge men into destruction and perdition.

General references

And he answered and said to him, Teacher, all these have I kept from my youth.

For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man perceiving his natural face in a glass;