Luke 6:49
But the person who hears what I say but doesn't act on it is like someone who built a house on the ground without any foundation. When the floodwaters pushed against it, that house quickly collapsed, and the resulting destruction of that house was extensive."
Proverbs 28:18
Whoever lives blamelessly will be delivered, but whoever is perverted will fall without warning.
Jeremiah 44:16-17
"As for the message that you reported to us in the name of the LORD, we won't listen to you!
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.
Hosea 4:14
However, I'm not going to punish your daughters when they commit prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, because their men are themselves immoral they offer sacrifices with prostitutes. These people who aren't discerning will stumble.
Matthew 12:43-45
"Whenever an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it wanders through waterless places looking for a place to rest, but finds none.
Matthew 13:20-22
As for what was sown on the stony ground, this is the person who hears the word and accepts it joyfully at once,
Matthew 21:29-30
His son replied, "I don't want to,' but later he changed his mind and went.
Matthew 23:3
so do whatever they tell you and follow it, but stop doing what they do, because they don't do what they say.
Matthew 24:10
Then many people will fall away, will betray one another, and will hate one another.
Mark 4:17
but since they don't have any roots, they last for only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes along because of the word, they immediately fall away.
Luke 6:46
"Why do you keep calling me "Lord, Lord,' but don't do what I tell you?
Luke 8:5-7
"A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some seeds fell along the path, were trampled on, and birds from the sky ate them up.
Luke 10:12-16
I tell you, on the last day it will be easier for Sodom than for that town!"
Luke 11:24-26
"Whenever an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it wanders through dry places looking for a place to rest but doesn't find any. So it says, "I will go back to my home that I left.'
Luke 12:47
That servant who knew what his master wanted but didn't prepare himself or do what was wanted will receive a severe beating.
Luke 19:14
But the citizens of his country hated him and sent a delegation to follow him and to announce, "We don't want this man to rule over us!'
Luke 19:27
But as for these enemies of mine who didn't want me to be their king bring them here and slaughter them in my presence!'"
John 15:2
He cuts off every branch that does not produce fruit in me, and he cuts back every branch that does produce fruit, so that it might produce more fruit.
Acts 20:29
I know that when I'm gone, savage wolves will come among you and not spare the flock.
Acts 26:11
I would even punish them frequently in every synagogue and try to make them blaspheme. Raging furiously against them, I would hunt them down even in distant cities.
1 Thessalonians 3:5
But when I could stand it no longer, I sent Timothy to find out about your faith. I was afraid that the tempter had tempted you in some way, and that our work had been a waste of time.
Hebrews 10:26-29
For if we choose to go on sinning after we have learned the full truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
James 1:22-26
Keep on being obedient to the word, and not merely being hearers who deceive themselves.
James 2:17-26
In the same way, faith by itself, if it does not prove itself with actions, is dead.
2 Peter 1:5-9
For this very reason, you must make every effort to supplement your faith with moral character, your moral character with knowledge,
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after escaping the world's corruptions through a full knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah, they are again entangled and conquered by those corruptions, then their last condition is worse than their former one.
1 John 2:3-4
This is how we can be sure that we have come to know him: if we continually keep his commandments.
1 John 2:19
They left us, but they were not part of us, for if they had been part of us, they would have stayed with us. Their leaving made it clear that none of them was really part of us.