Ezekiel 33:31 “So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words…”

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

American Standard Version

And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but do them not; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their gain.

Geneva Bible 1599

For they come vnto thee, as the people vseth to come: and my people sit before thee, and heare thy wordes, but they will not doe them: for with their mouthes they make iestes, and their heart goeth after their couetousnesse.

Darby Translation

And they come unto thee as a people cometh, and they sit before thee [as] my people, and they hear thy words, but they do them not; for with their mouth they shew much love, [but] their heart goeth after their dishonest gain.

Young's Literal Translation

And they come in unto thee as the coming in of a people, And they sit before thee — My people, And have heard thy words, and they do them not, For doting loves with their mouth they are making, After their dishonest gain their heart is going.

Bible in Basic English

And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.

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Cross references

“as the people cometh”

Ezekiel 8:1 Luke 10:39 Ezekiel 14:1 Ezekiel 20:1–32 Acts 10:33

Ezekiel 8:1 · BSB

In the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, 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.

Luke 10:39 · BSB

She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to His message.

Ezekiel 14:1 · BSB

Then some of the elders of Israel came and sat down before me.

Ezekiel 20:1–32 · BSB

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.

Acts 10:33 · BSB

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.”

“and they”

James 1:22–24 Luke 11:28 Jeremiah 44:16 Luke 8:21 Jeremiah 43:1–7 Matthew 7:24–27

James 1:22–24 · BSB

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

Luke 11:28 · BSB

But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

Jeremiah 44:16 · BSB

“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!

Luke 8:21 · BSB

But He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out.”

Jeremiah 43:1–7 · BSB

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—

Matthew 7:24–27 · BSB

Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

“for with”

Isaiah 29:13 James 2:14–16 Deuteronomy 5:28 Deuteronomy 5:29 Psalm 78:36 Psalm 78:37

Isaiah 29:13 · BSB

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 · BSB

What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?

Deuteronomy 5:28 · BSB

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.

Deuteronomy 5:29 · BSB

If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.

Psalm 78:36 · BSB

But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.

Psalm 78:37 · BSB

Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.

“shew much love”

Isaiah 28:13 Jeremiah 23:33–38 Luke 16:14

Isaiah 28:13 · BSB

Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “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 will be injured, ensnared, and captu…

Jeremiah 23:33–38 · BSB

“Now when this people or a prophet or priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the LORD?’ you are to say to them, ‘What burden? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.’

Luke 16:14 · BSB

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

“but their”

Matthew 13:22 Matthew 6:24 Matthew 19:22 Luke 12:15–21 Ephesians 5:5 1 Timothy 6:9

Matthew 13:22 · BSB

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

Matthew 6:24 · BSB

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 19:22 · BSB

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

Luke 12:15–21 · BSB

And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

Ephesians 5:5 · BSB

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 · BSB

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.

Also

Ezekiel 22:27

Ezekiel 22:27 · BSB

Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

30As for you, son of man, your people are talking about you near the city walls and in the doorways of their houses. One speaks to another, each saying to his brother, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD!’

32Indeed, you are to them like a singer of love songs with a beautiful voice, who skillfully plays an instrument. They hear your words but do not put them into practice.

Read Ezekiel 33