Luke 14:18
They all made excuses one after another. The first one told the servant: 'I bought a field and must go and look at it. Please accept my apologies.'
Isaiah 28:12-13
He said: This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest, and, this is the refreshing. Yet they would not listen.
Isaiah 29:11-12
His message is like a sealed book to you. You say to someone read this out loud. And they respond, We cannot read it, because it is sealed.
Jeremiah 5:4-5
I thought: These are only the poor and ignorant. They are foolish. They do not know what their God requires, what Jehovah wants them to do.
Jeremiah 6:10
To whom can I speak and give warning that they may hear? Their ears are closed and they cannot listen. Behold, the word of Jehovah has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
Jeremiah 6:16-17
Jehovah says: Stand by the way [of life] and see and ask for the ancient paths. Walk in the good way and you will find rest. But you said: We will not walk in it!
Matthew 22:5-6
But they paid no attention and went about their business. One went to his farm and another went to his trade.
Matthew 24:38-39
It will be like those days before the Flood. They were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark.
Luke 8:14
The seeds that fell among the thorns are people who hear the word and go their own way. They are choked with the cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and do not produce fruit.
Luke 17:26-31
The days of the Son of man will be like the days of Noah.
Luke 18:24
Seeing him Jesus said: It is very difficult for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Luke 20:4-5
The baptism of John was it from heaven or from men?
John 1:11
He came to his own. They did not receive him!
John 5:40
And yet you will not come to me that you may have life.
Acts 13:45-46
When the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with envy. They spoke against those things Paul spoke. They contradicted and blasphemed him.
Acts 18:5-6
Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia. He witnessed to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah.
Acts 28:25-27
So they left, disagreeing among themselves, after Paul had said this one thing: How well the Holy Spirit spoke through the prophet Isaiah to your ancestors!
1 Timothy 6:9-10
Those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts. These draw men into ruin and destruction.
2 Timothy 4:4
They will turn their ears away from the truth, and turn aside to myths (fiction).
2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas forsook me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
Hebrews 12:16
Let no one become immoral or unspiritual like Esau. He sold his birthright for a single meal!
1 John 2:15-16
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.