Matthew 7:26

WEB

²⁶Everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

KJV

²⁶ 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:

BSB

²⁶But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

FBV

²⁶Everyone that hears the words I say, and doesn't follow them, is like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

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Extra References

Luke 6:49

⁴⁹But he who hears and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.”

Jeremiah 8:9

⁹The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected the LORD’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

James 2:20

²⁰But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

Proverbs 14:1

¹Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

³⁰“Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now the LORD says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.