Matthew 7:26

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

Doeth

James 2:20

General references

Bible References

Doeth

Therefore the Lord God of Israel declares, ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father should walk before Me forever’; but now the Lord declares, ‘Far be it from Me—for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me will be lightly esteemed.

The wise woman builds her house,
But the foolish tears it down with her own hands.

“The wise men are put to shame,
They are dismayed and caught;
Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord,
And what kind of wisdom do they have?

But the one who has heard and has not acted accordingly, is like a man who built a house on the ground without any foundation; and the torrent burst against it and immediately it collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great.”

But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless?

General references

Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.

Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these among those which chew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in two: the camel and the rabbit and the shaphan, for though they chew the cud, they do not divide the hoof; they are unclean for you.

Five of them were foolish, and five were prudent.

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;