²⁶ And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like ^(A)a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

²⁰ Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?

^49 (A)But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and ^(B)the ruin of that house was great.”

³⁰ Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ^(A)‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ ^(B)but now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.