Ezekiel 33:31
They come to you as people usually do and sit in front of you as if they were my people. They hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. With their mouths they speak of love, but their hearts are set on gain.
Treated in 9 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- The Ten Commandments ·
2.4 The Fourth Commandment cites Ezek 33: 31
…says, but our hearts go after covetousness, will it not offend God to be thus slighted? Ezek 33: 31. He has pronounced a curse upon such. ‘Cursed be the deceiver, which has in his flock a…
- Practical Religion ·
Self-Inquiry cites Ezek. xxxiii. 31
…and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not." (Ezek. xxxiii. 31, 32.) In a day like this, when hearing and thinking, without doing, is so common, no one…
- Practical Religion ·
Reality cites Ezek. xxxiii. 31
…talked and spoke like God's people "while their hearts went after their covetousness." (Ezek. xxxiii. 31.) St. Paul tells us that we may "speak with the tongue of men and angels," and yet be no…
- The Ten Commandments ·
2.3 The Third Commandment cites Ezek 33: 31
…Hos 4: 8. Their eyes are lifted up to heaven, but their hearts are rooted in the earth. Ezek 33: 31. These are devils in Samuel’s mantle. (2) Superstitious persons take God’s name in vain.…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
IX. It is no certain sign that the religious affections which persons have are such as have in them the nature of true religion, or that they have not, that they dispose persons to spend much time in religion, and to be zealously engaged in the external duties of worship cites Ezek. 33:31
…to take delight in hearing the word of God preached, as it was with Ezekiel's hearers: Ezek. 33:31, 32, “And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my…
- A Body of Divinity ·
The Being of God cites Ezek 33:31
…their hearts; which makes God disclaim the very services he himself appointed. Isa 1:12. Ezek 33:31. Let us then give God spirit-worship, which best suits his nature. A sovereign elixir…
- Old Paths ·
Few Saved! cites Ezek. xxxiii. 31
…they deny Him.”—They “have a form of godliness, but they have not the power” of it. (Ezek. xxxiii. 31; Titus i. 16; 2 Tim. iii. 5.) They are saints at church, and saints to talk to in public.…
- Old Paths ·
The Heart cites Ezek. xxxiii. 31
…with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.” (Ezek. xxxiii. 31.) Would you know the reason why thousands of so-called Christians will be lost at last…
- Knots Untied ·
Worship cites Ezek. xxxiii. 31
…with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.” (Ezek. xxxiii. 31.) The heart is the principal thing that God asks man to bring in all his approaches to…