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.


In Context

23 Then I will tell them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.'

24 |Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

25 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock.

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

27 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.|

28 It happened, when Jesus had finished saying these things, that the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,

Matthew 7:26 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:26And 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:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:26But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:26And every one that heareth these my words, and doth them not, shall be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:26And every one that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:26And every one who hears these my words and does not do them, he shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:26And every one that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:26And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:26'And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:26And every one that hears these sayings of mine, and does them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, which built his house on the sand: