Luke 6:49

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.

That heareth

Against

1 Thessalonians 3:5

Immediately

Matthew 12:43

Mark 4:17

1 John 2:19

The ruin

2 Peter 2:20

Bible References

That heareth

"So why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' but do not practice what I tell you?

"A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some of the seed fell along the path, and were trodden down, and the wild birds ate them up.

But his citizens continued to hate him, and sent a delegation after him to say, 'We do not want this man to become king over us.'

And he answered, 'I will, sir,' but he did not go.

So everything they tell you, do and practice, but stop doing what they do, for they preach but do not practice.

He cuts away any branch on me that stops bearing fruit, and He repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more.

Keep on obeying this message; do not merely listen to it, and so deceive yourselves.

So faith by itself, if it has no deeds to back it up, is dead.

Now for this very reason you must do your level best to supplement your faith with moral character, moral character with knowledge,

By this we can be sure that we know Him -- if we practice obedience to His commands.

Against

And what was sown upon the thin rocky soil illustrates the man who hears the message and bubbling over with joy at once accepts it,

Then many will fall by the way, and will betray one another and hate one another.

Because I know that after I have gone violent wolves will break in among you and will not spare the flock.

I had them punished and tried to force them to use abusive language; in my extreme fury against them I continued to pursue them even into distant towns.

That was why, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for I was afraid that the tempter had tempted you and our labor might be lost.

Immediately

"Whenever the foul spirit goes out of a man, it wanders about in deserts in search of rest, but cannot find it.

but it does not take real root in them, and so they last only a little while; then when trouble or persecution comes on account of the truth, they at once fall by the way.

They have gone out from our own number, but they did not really belong to us; for if they had, they would have stayed with us. It was to show that none of those who went out really belonged to us.

The ruin

I tell you, on that day the punishment will be lighter for Sodom than for that town.

"When the foul spirit goes out of a man, it wanders about in deserts in search for rest, and since it finds none, it says, 'I will go back to my house which I left.'

That slave who knows his master's wishes and does not get ready or act upon them will be severely punished.

For if we go willfully sinning after we have received full knowledge of the truth, there is no sacrifice left to be offered for our sins,

For if, after men have escaped the corrupting ways of the world through a full knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are conquered by them, then their last condition is worse than their former one.