Luke 14:18

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Summary

And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.

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Proverbs 1:30

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The baptism of John--was [it] from heaven or from men?

to whom he has said, "This [is] rest; give rest to the weary; and this [is] repose"; yet they were not willing to hear.

And the vision of all this has become for you like [the] words of sealed document. When they give it to one who knows the document, saying, "{Read} this now!" He says, "I am not able, for it [is] sealed."

Then I said, "[They are] just simple people, they are foolish, for they know not the way of Yahweh, the law of their God.

To whom shall I speak and admonish, that they may hear? Look, their ears [are] {closed}, and they are not able to listen attentively. Look, the word of Yahweh is to them an object of scorn, they do not delight in it.

But they paid no attention [and] went away--this one to his own field, that one to his business.

He came to his own [things], and his own [people] did not receive him.

And you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

But [when] the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and began contradicting what was being said by Paul [by] reviling [him].

Now when both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began to be occupied with the message, solemnly testifying to the Jews [that] the Christ was Jesus.

So being in disagreement with one another, they began to leave [after] Paul made one statement: "The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through the prophet Isaiah to your fathers,

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And the [seed] that fell into the thorn plants--these are the ones who hear and [as they] go along are choked by the worries and riches and pleasures of life, and they do not bear fruit to maturity.

And just as it was in the days of Noah, so also it will be in the days of the Son of Man--

And Jesus took notice of him [and] said, "How {difficult it is for} those who possess wealth to enter into the kingdom of God!

For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the ark.

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and a trap and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge those people into ruin and destruction.

and they will turn away from the hearing of the truth, but will turn to myths.

[that] no one [be] a sexually immoral or totally worldly [person] like Esau, who for one meal traded his own birthright.

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,

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they were not willing [to accept] my counsel, they despised all my reproof.