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

1 John 2:19

The ruin

2 Peter 2:20

Bible References

That heareth

"Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things which I say?

"The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, 'We don't want this man to reign over us.'

As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, we will not listen to you.

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

He answered, 'I will not,' but afterward he changed his mind, and went.

All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don't do their works; for they say, and don't do.

Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

Against

What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;

Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

For this cause I also, when I couldn't stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

Immediately

Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.

I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.

But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn't find it.

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

The ruin

I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.

The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, 'I will turn back to my house from which I came out.'

That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.