Ezekiel 33:31
So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
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Ezekiel 8:1
In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me; and there the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me.

Ezekiel 14:1
Then some of the elders of Israel came and sat down before me.

Ezekiel 20:1
In the seventh year, on the tenth day of the fifth month, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and they sat down before me.

Luke 10:39
She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet, listening to His message.

Acts 10:33
So I sent for you immediately, and you were kind enough to come. Now then, we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has instructed you to tell us."

they sit before thee as my people.

Jeremiah 6:16, 17
This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: Where is the good way? Then walk in it and find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it!' . . .

Jeremiah 43:1-7
When Jeremiah had finished telling all the people all the words of the LORD their God--everything that the LORD had sent him to say-- . . .

Jeremiah 44:16
"As for the word you spoke to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!

Mark 7:24-27
Jesus left that place and went to the region of Tyre. Not wanting anyone to know He was there, He entered a house, but was unable to escape their notice. . . .

Luke 6:48, 49
He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid his foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the torrent crashed against that house but could not shake it, because it was well built. . . .

Luke 8:21
But He replied, "My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out."

Luke 11:28
But He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."

James 1:22-24
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves. . . .

for with

Deuteronomy 5:28, 29
And the LORD heard the words you spoke to me, and He said to me, "I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken. . . .

Psalm 78:36, 37
But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues. . . .

Isaiah 29:13
Therefore the Lord said: "These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.

James 2:14-16
What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? . . .

1 John 3:17, 18
If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him? . . .

Isaiah 28:13
Then the word of the LORD will come to them: "Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, a little here, a little there, " so that they will go stumbling backward and be injured, snared, and captured.

Jeremiah 23:33-38
"Now when this people, or a prophet or a priest, asks you, 'What is the oracle of the LORD?' you are to say to them: 'What oracle? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.' . . .

Luke 16:14
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all of this and were scoffing at Jesus.

but their

Matthew 6:24
No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Matthew 13:22
The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Matthew 19:22
When the young man heard this, he went away in sorrow, because he had great wealth.

Luke 12:15-21
And He said to them, "Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions." . . .

Ephesians 5:5
For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

1 Timothy 6:9, 10
Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction. . . .

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
"They come to you as people come, and sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not do them, for they do the lustful desires expressed by their mouth, and their heart goes after their gain.

King James Bible
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So My people come to you in crowds, sit in front of you, and hear your words, but they don't obey them. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest profit.

International Standard Version
Then they come to you as a group, sit down right in front of you as if they were my people, hear your words—and then they don't do what you say— because they're seeking only their own desires, they pursue ill-gotten profits, and they keep following their own self-interests.

NET Bible
They come to you in crowds, and they sit in front of you as my people. They hear your words, but do not obey them. For they talk lustfully, and their heart is set on their own advantage.
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