Luke 6:49 Cross References

Luke 6:49

49: But anyone who listens and doesn't obey is like a person who builds a house without a foundation. When the floods sweep down against that house, it will crumble into a heap of ruins."

James 1:22

  1. And remember, it is a message to obey, not just to listen to. If you don't obey, you are only fooling yourself.
  2. For if you just listen and don't obey, it is like looking at your face in a mirror but doing nothing to improve your appearance.
  3. You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like.
  4. But if you keep looking steadily into God's perfect law--the law that sets you free--and if you do what it says and don't forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it.
  5. If you claim to be religious but don't control your tongue, you are just fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless.

Proverbs 28:18

  1. The honest will be rescued from harm, but those who are crooked will be destroyed.

Hebrews 10:26

  1. Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received a full knowledge of the truth, there is no other sacrifice that will cover these sins.
  2. There will be nothing to look forward to but the terrible expectation of God's judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies.
  3. Anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
  4. Think how much more terrible the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God and have treated the blood of the covenant as if it were common and unholy. Such people have insulted and enraged the Holy Spirit who brings God's mercy to his people.

Ezekiel 33:31

  1. So they come pretending to be sincere and sit before you listening. But they have no intention of doing what I tell them. They express love with their mouths, but their hearts seek only after money.

Matthew 12:43

  1. "When an evil spirit leaves a person, it goes into the desert, seeking rest but finding none.
  2. Then it says, 'I will return to the person I came from.' So it returns and finds its former home empty, swept, and clean.
  3. Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before. That will be the experience of this evil generation."

Luke 19:14

  1. But his people hated him and sent a delegation after him to say they did not want him to be their king.

Matthew 13:20

  1. The rocky soil represents those who hear the message and receive it with joy.
  2. But like young plants in such soil, their roots don't go very deep. At first they get along fine, but they wilt as soon as they have problems or are persecuted because they believe the word.
  3. The thorny ground represents those who hear and accept the Good News, but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the cares of this life and the lure of wealth, so no crop is produced.

Mark 4:17

  1. But like young plants in such soil, their roots don't go very deep. At first they get along fine, but they wilt as soon as they have problems or are persecuted because they believe the word.

2 Peter 1:5

  1. So make every effort to apply the benefits of these promises to your life. Then your faith will produce a life of moral excellence. A life of moral excellence leads to knowing God better.
  2. Knowing God leads to self-control. Self-control leads to patient endurance, and patient endurance leads to godliness.
  3. Godliness leads to love for other Christians, and finally you will grow to have genuine love for everyone.
  4. The more you grow like this, the more you will become productive and useful in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  5. But those who fail to develop these virtues are blind or, at least, very shortsighted. They have already forgotten that God has cleansed them from their old life of sin.

Luke 6:46

  1. "So why do you call me 'Lord,' when you won't obey me?

Luke 10:12

  1. The truth is, even wicked Sodom will be better off than such a town on the judgment day.
  2. "What horrors await you, Korazin and Bethsaida! For if the miracles I did in you had been done in wicked Tyre and Sidon, their people would have sat in deep repentance long ago, clothed in sackcloth and throwing ashes on their heads to show their remorse.
  3. Yes, Tyre and Sidon will be better off on the judgment day than you.
  4. And you people of Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to the place of the dead. "
  5. Then he said to the disciples, "Anyone who accepts your message is also accepting me. And anyone who rejects you is rejecting me. And anyone who rejects me is rejecting God who sent me."

Matthew 24:10

  1. And many will turn away from me and betray and hate each other.

Matthew 21:29

  1. The son answered, 'No, I won't go,' but later he changed his mind and went anyway.
  2. Then the father told the other son, 'You go,' and he said, 'Yes, sir, I will.' But he didn't go.

1 Thessalonians 3:5

  1. That is why, when I could bear it no longer, I sent Timothy to find out whether your faith was still strong. I was afraid that the Tempter had gotten the best of you and that all our work had been useless.

Acts 26:11

  1. Many times I had them whipped in the synagogues to try to get them to curse Christ. I was so violently opposed to them that I even hounded them in distant cities of foreign lands.

1 John 2:19

  1. These people left our churches because they never really belonged with us; otherwise they would have stayed with us. When they left us, it proved that they do not belong with us.

Acts 20:29

  1. I know full well that false teachers, like vicious wolves, will come in among you after I leave, not sparing the flock.

James 2:17

  1. So you see, it isn't enough just to have faith. Faith that doesn't show itself by good deeds is no faith at all--it is dead and useless.
  2. Now someone may argue, "Some people have faith; others have good deeds." I say, "I can't see your faith if you don't have good deeds, but I will show you my faith through my good deeds."
  3. Do you still think it's enough just to believe that there is one God? Well, even the demons believe this, and they tremble in terror!
  4. Fool! When will you ever learn that faith that does not result in good deeds is useless?
  5. Don't you remember that our ancestor Abraham was declared right with God because of what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?

2 Peter 2:20

  1. And when people escape from the wicked ways of the world by learning about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and then get tangled up with sin and become its slave again, they are worse off than before.

Luke 19:27

  1. And now about these enemies of mine who didn't want me to be their king--bring them in and execute them right here in my presence.'"

Matthew 23:3

  1. So practice and obey whatever they say to you, but don't follow their example. For they don't practice what they teach.

John 15:2

  1. He cuts off every branch that doesn't produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.

Luke 8:5

  1. "A farmer went out to plant some seed. As he scattered it across his field, some seed fell on a footpath, where it was stepped on, and the birds came and ate it.
  2. Other seed fell on shallow soil with underlying rock. This seed began to grow, but soon it withered and died for lack of moisture.
  3. Other seed fell among thorns that shot up and choked out the tender blades.

Jeremiah 44:16

  1. "We will not listen to your messages from the LORD!
  2. We will do whatever we want. We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and sacrifice to her just as much as we like--just as we and our ancestors did before us, and as our kings and princes have always done in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For in those days we had plenty to eat, and we were well off and had no troubles!

Luke 12:47

  1. The servant will be severely punished, for though he knew his duty, he refused to do it.

1 John 2:3

  1. And how can we be sure that we belong to him? By obeying his commandments.
  2. If someone says, "I belong to God," but doesn't obey God's commandments, that person is a liar and does not live in the truth.

Luke 11:24

  1. "When an evil spirit leaves a person, it goes into the desert, searching for rest. But when it finds none, it says, 'I will return to the person I came from.'
  2. So it returns and finds that its former home is all swept and clean.
  3. Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before."

Hosea 4:14

  1. Why should I punish them? For you men are doing the same thing, sinning with whores and shrine prostitutes. O foolish people! You will be destroyed, for you refuse to understand.
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