Luke 14:18

The Parable Of The Great Banquet

¹⁷ At the time for the banquet he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, 'Come, because everything is now ready.' ¹⁸ But one after another they all began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please excuse me.' ¹⁹ Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going out to examine them. Please excuse me.'

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Isaiah 28:12-13

In the past he said to them, "This is where security can be found. Provide security for the one who is exhausted! This is where rest can be found." But they refused to listen.

Isaiah 29:11-12

To you this entire prophetic revelation is like words in a sealed scroll. When they hand it to one who can read and say, "Read this," he responds, "I can't, because it is sealed."

Jeremiah 5:4-5

I thought, "Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. They act like fools because they do not know what the Lord demands. They do not know what their God requires of them.

Jeremiah 6:10

I answered, "Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, what the Lord says is offensive to them. They do not like it at all.

Jeremiah 6:16-17

The Lord said to his people: "You are standing at the crossroads. So consider your path. Ask where the old, reliable paths are. Ask where the path is that leads to blessing and follow it. If you do, you will find rest for your souls." But they said, "We will not follow it!"

Matthew 22:5-6

But they were indifferent and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.

Matthew 24:38-39

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

Luke 8:14

As for the seed that fell among thorns, these are the ones who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the worries 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 too it will be in the days of the Son of Man.

Luke 18:24

When Jesus noticed this, he said, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!

Luke 20:4-5

John's baptism -- was it from heaven or from people?"

John 1:11

He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.

John 5:40

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

Acts 13:45-46

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they began to contradict what Paul was saying by reviling him.

Acts 18:5-6

Now when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul became wholly absorbed with proclaiming the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

Acts 28:25-27

So they began to leave, unable to agree among themselves, after Paul made one last statement: "The Holy Spirit spoke rightly to your ancestors through the prophet Isaiah

1 Timothy 6:9-10

Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

2 Timothy 4:4

And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths.

2 Timothy 4:10

For Demas deserted me, since he loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia and Titus to Dalmatia.

Hebrews 12:16

And see to it that no one becomes an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own 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,