Luke 14:18

The Parable Of The Great Banquet

¹⁷ When it was time for the banquet, he sent his servant to tell those who were invited, "Come! Everything is now ready.' ¹⁸ Every single one of them began asking to be excused. The first told him, "I bought a field, and I need to go out and inspect it. Please excuse me.' ¹⁹ Another said, "I bought five pairs of oxen, and I'm on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.'

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Isaiah 28:12-13

to whom he said, "This is the resting place, so give rest to the weary"' and, "This is the place of repose" - but they would not listen.

Isaiah 29:11-12

"And this entire vision has become for you like the words of a sealed book. When people give it to someone who can read, and say, "Read this, please,' he answers, "I cannot, because it is sealed.'

Jeremiah 5:4-5

Then I said, "These are only the poor, they're foolish, for they don't know the LORD's way, the requirement of their God.

Jeremiah 6:10

To whom will I speak and give a warning so they'll listen? Look, their ears are closed, and they cannot hear. Look, this message from the LORD is contemptible to them; they don't delight in it.

Jeremiah 6:16-17

This is what the LORD says: "Stand beside the roads and watch. Ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is. Walk in it and find rest for yourselves. But they said, "We won't walk in it!'

Matthew 22:5-6

But they paid no attention to this and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.

Matthew 24:38-39

In those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage right up to the day when Noah went into the ark.

Luke 8:14

The ones that fell among the thorn bushes are the people who listen, but as they go on their way they are choked by the worries, wealth, and pleasures of life, and their fruit doesn't mature.

Luke 17:26-31

"Just as it was in Noah's time, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man.

Luke 18:24

So when Jesus saw how sad he was, he said, "How hard it is for rich people to get into the kingdom of God!

Luke 20:4-5

Was John's authority to baptize from heaven or from humans?"

John 1:11

He came to his own creation, yet his own people did not receive him.

John 5:40

But you are not willing to come to me to have life.

Acts 13:45-46

But when the Jewish leaders saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to object to the statements made by Paul and even to abuse him.

Acts 18:5-6

But when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself entirely to the word as he emphatically assured the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.

Acts 28:25-27

They disagreed with one another as they were leaving, so Paul added this statement: "The Holy Spirit was so right when he spoke to your ancestors through the prophet Isaiah!

1 Timothy 6:9-10

But people who want to get rich keep toppling into temptation and are trapped by many stupid and harmful desires that plunge them into destruction and ruin.

2 Timothy 4:4

They will refuse to listen to the truth and will turn to myths.

2 Timothy 4:10

because Demas, having fallen in love with this present world, has abandoned me and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Hebrews 12:16

No one should be immoral or godless like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.

1 John 2:15-16

Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father's love is not in him.