Therefore the LORD God of Israel saith: `I said indeed that thy house and the house of thy father should walk before Me for ever.' But now the LORD saith, `Be it far from Me; for them that honor Me I will honor, and they that despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.

Every wise woman buildeth her house, but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

The wise men are ashamed; they are dismayed and taken. Lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD: and what wisdom is in them?

But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that built a house without a foundation upon the earth, against which the stream beat vehemently, and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great."

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?