Luke 14:18
But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.'
Isaiah 28:12-13
to whom he has said, "This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose"; yet they would not hear.
Isaiah 29:11-12
And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, "Read this," he says, "I cannot, for it is sealed."
Jeremiah 5:4-5
Then I said, "These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
Jeremiah 6:10
To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the LORD is to them an object of scorn; they take no pleasure in it.
Jeremiah 6:16-17
Thus says the LORD: "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'
Matthew 22:5-6
But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business,
Matthew 24:38-39
For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark,
Luke 8:14
And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.
Luke 17:26-31
Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.
Luke 18:24
Jesus, seeing that he had become sad, said, "How difficult it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!
Luke 20:4-5
was the baptism of John from heaven or from man?"
John 1:11
He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
John 5:40
yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.
Acts 13:45-46
But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, reviling him.
Acts 18:5-6
When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with the word, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.
Acts 28:25-27
And disagreeing among themselves, they departed after Paul had made one statement: "The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:
1 Timothy 6:9-10
But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
2 Timothy 4:4
and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia,Titus to Dalmatia.
Hebrews 12:16
that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.
1 John 2:15-16
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.