Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Spend

Bible References

Do ye

Isaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes.
His deceived mind has led him astray,
and he cannot deliver himself,
or say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
Jeremiah 2:13
For My people have committed a double evil:
They have abandoned Me,
the fountain of living water,
and dug cisterns for themselves,
cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.
Hosea 8:7
Indeed, they sow the wind
and reap the whirlwind.
There is no standing grain;
what sprouts fails to yield flour.
Even if they did,
foreigners would swallow it up.
Hosea 12:1
Ephraim chases the wind
and pursues the east wind.
He continually multiplies lies and violence.
He makes a covenant with Assyria,
and olive oil is carried to Egypt.
Habakkuk 2:13
Is it not from the Lord of Hosts
that the peoples labor only to fuel the fire
and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?
Matthew 15:9
They worship Me in vain,
teaching as doctrines the commands of men.
Luke 15:15
Then he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
Romans 9:31
But Israel, pursuing the law for righteousness, has not achieved the righteousness of the law.
Romans 10:2
I can testify about them that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Philippians 3:4
although I once also had confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:
Hebrews 13:9
Don’t be led astray by various kinds of strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established by grace and not by foods, since those involved in them have not benefited.

Spend

Isaiah 46:6
Those who pour out their bags of gold
and weigh out silver on scales—
they hire a goldsmith and he makes it into a god.
Then they kneel and bow down to it.

General references

Psalm 107:9
For He has satisfied the thirsty
and filled the hungry with good things.
Proverbs 8:1
Doesn’t Wisdom call out?
Doesn’t Understanding make her voice heard?
Proverbs 9:5
“Come, eat my bread,
and drink the wine I have mixed.
Isaiah 1:19
If you are willing and obedient,
you will eat the good things of the land.
Matthew 22:9
Therefore go to where the roads exit the city and invite everyone you find to the banquet.’

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