Thematic Bible: Careless hearing


Thematic Bible



And, lo, you are unto them as a very lovely song of one that has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear your words, but they do them not.


For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror: For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what manner of man he was.


When any one hears the word of the kingdom, and understands it not, then comes the wicked one, and catches away that which was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the way side.


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


And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.