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

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Bible References

As the people cometh

And it cometh to pass, in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth of the month, I am sitting in my house, and elders of Judah are sitting before me, and fall on me there doth a hand of the Lord Jehovah,

And come in unto me do certain of the elders of Israel, and sit before me.

And it cometh to pass, in the seventh year, in the fifth month, in the tenth of the month, come in have certain of the elders of Israel to seek Jehovah, and they sit before me;

and she had also a sister, called Mary, who also, having seated herself beside the feet of Jesus, was hearing the word,

at once, therefore, I sent to thee; thou also didst do well, having come; now, therefore, are we all before God present to hear all things that have been commanded thee by God.'

They sit before thee as my people

Thus said Jehovah: Stand ye by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where is this -- the good way? and go ye in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, 'We do not go.'

And it cometh to pass, when Jeremiah doth finish to speak unto all the people all the words of Jehovah their God, with which Jehovah their God hath sent him unto them -- all these words --

The word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah -- we are not hearkening unto thee;

'Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock;

he is like to a man building a house, who did dig, and deepen, and laid a foundation upon the rock, and a flood having come, the stream broke forth on that house, and was not able to shake it, for it had been founded upon the rock.

and he answering said unto them, 'My mother and my brethren! they are those who the word of God are hearing, and doing.'

And he said, 'Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping it!'

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

For with

And Jehovah heareth the voice of your words, in your speaking unto me, and Jehovah saith unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken unto thee; they have done well in all that they have spoken.

And -- they deceive Him with their mouth, And with their tongue do lie to Him,

And the Lord saith: Because drawn near hath this people, with its mouth, And with its lips they have honoured Me, And its heart it hath put far off from Me, And their fear of Me is -- A precept of men is taught!

What is the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him?

Shew much love

And to whom a word of Jehovah hath been, Rule on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there, So that they go and have stumbled backward, And been broken, and snared, and captured.

And when this people, or the prophet, Or a priest, doth ask thee, saying, What is the burden of Jehovah? Then thou hast said unto them: Ye are the burden, and I have left you, An affirmation of Jehovah.

And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him,

But their

'None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

'And that sown toward the thorns, this is he who is hearing the word, and the anxiety of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, do choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

And the young man, having heard the word, went away sorrowful, for he had many possessions;

And he said unto them, 'Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.'

for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.

and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,

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and he saith unto them, 'Lodge here to-night, and I have brought you back word, as Jehovah speaketh unto me;' and the princes of Moab abide with Balaam.

Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.

And he answering said to him, 'Teacher, all these did I keep from my youth.'

because, if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one hath been like to a man viewing his natural face in a mirror,