Matthew 7:24 Cross References - CAB

²⁴ "Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine and does them, I will compare him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock:

²⁸ And He said to man, Behold, godliness is wisdom: and to abstain from evil is understanding.

¹⁰ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and all that act accordingly have a good understanding; His praise endures forever and ever.

⁹⁹ I have more understanding than all my teachers; for Your testimonies are my meditation.

¹³⁰ The manifestation of Your words will enlighten, and instruct the simple.

⁸ A wise man in heart will receive commandments, but he that is unguarded in his lips shall be overthrown in his perverseness.

⁸ The wisdom of the prudent will understand their ways, but the folly of fools leads astray.

³ "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ⁴ Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. ⁵ Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ⁶ Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. ⁷ Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. ⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. ⁹ Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. ¹⁰ Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ¹¹ "Blessed are you whenever they revile you, and they persecute you, and they say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. ¹² Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

²⁸ But I say to you, that whoever looks at a woman in order to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ²⁹ If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is better for you that one of your members be lost, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. ³⁰ And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is better for you that one of your members be lost, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. ³¹ "Furthermore it has been said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a divorce certificate.' ³² "But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for a matter of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorcee commits adultery.

¹⁴ "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. ¹⁵ But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

¹⁹ "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves dig through and steal; ²⁰ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupts, and where thieves do not dig through and steal. ²¹ For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

⁷ "Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. ⁸ For everyone that asks receives, and he that seeks finds, and to him that knocks, it shall be opened.

¹³ "Enter in through the narrow gate; because wide is the gate, and broad is the way which leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in through it. ¹⁴ How narrow the gate, and confined the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it!

⁵⁰ For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother."

⁴⁷ Everyone who comes to Me, and hears My words and does them, I will show you to whom he is like: ⁴⁸ He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep and laid a foundation on the rock. And when a flood occurred, the stream burst upon that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock. ⁴⁹ But he who hears and does not do is like a man building a house on the ground without a foundation, against which the stream burst upon; and immediately it fell. And the breaking of that house was great."

²⁸ But He said, "More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!"

¹⁷ If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

¹⁵ "If you love Me, keep My commandments.

²² Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, "Lord, and what has happened that You are about to manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and we will make Our home with him. ²⁴ He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me.

¹⁰ If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and I abide in His love.

¹⁴ You are My friends if you do what I command you.

⁶ who will recompense to each one according to his works: ⁷ to those who by the endurance of good works are seeking glory and honor and incorruption--eternal life. ⁸ But to those who are contentious, and who disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness--indignation and wrath, ⁹ ~ tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that works evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;

¹⁰ According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise architect I have laid the foundation, but another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. ¹¹ For no other foundation can anyone lay, other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love. ⁷ You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?

⁷ Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for what a man sows, this also he will reap. ⁸ For he who sows to his flesh, from his own flesh will reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap everlasting life.

²¹ Therefore laying aside all filthiness and abundance of evil, in meekness receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. ²² But become doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³ Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; ²⁴ for he observed himself and has gone away, and immediately forgot what sort of man he was. ²⁵ But the one who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one shall be blessed in what he does. ²⁶ If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceiving his heart, the religion of this man is useless. ²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

¹⁷ Thus also that faith, if it does not have works, is dead, being by itself ¹⁸ But someone will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by means of my works. ¹⁹ You believe God is one. You do well. Even the demons believe--and they shudder! ²⁰ But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? ²¹ Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? ²² Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by means of his works faith was made perfect? ²³ And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." And he was called a friend of God. ²⁴ You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. ²⁵ Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by means of works, when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? ²⁶ For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

¹³ Is there anyone wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his works are in meekness of wisdom. ¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy and strife in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth. ¹⁵ This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. ¹⁶ For where jealousy and strife exist, there unrest and every evil deed are. ¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. ¹⁸ Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those making peace.

³ Now by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.

²² And whatever we should ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and we do the things pleasing before Him. ²³ And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and should love one another, just as He gave commandment. ²⁴ And the one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, from the Spirit whom He gave us.

³ For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome, ⁴ because everything having been born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that has overcome the world--your faith. ⁵ Who is he that overcomes the world, if not he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

¹⁴ Blessed are those who do His commandments, so that their right shall be to the tree of life, and they may enter by the gates into the city. ¹⁵ But outside are dogs and drug users and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices a lie.