18 And all with one mind began to beg off. The first said to him, I have bought a field, and I have need to go out and see it; I ask you, have me excused.
Luke 14:18 Cross References - LITV
Isaiah 28:12-13
12 to whom He said, This is the rest; cause the weary to rest. Also, This is the repose. But they willed not to hear.
13 Yet the word of Jehovah was to them, precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they might go, and stumble, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Isaiah 29:11-12
Jeremiah 5:4-5
4 So I said, Surely they are poor; they are foolish, for they do not know the way of Jehovah, the ordinance of their God.
5 I will go up for myself to the great men and will speak to them. For they have known the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God. Surely these have joined in breaking the yoke; they have torn off the bonds.
Jeremiah 6:10
10 To whom shall I speak and give warning that they may hear? Behold, their ears are not circumcised, and they cannot listen. Behold, the word of Jehovah is a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
Jeremiah 6:16-17
16 So says Jehovah, Stand by the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it .
17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Listen to the sound of the ram's horn. But they said, We will not listen.
Matthew 22:5-6
Matthew 24:38-39
Luke 8:14
14 And those falling in the thorns, these are those hearing, but under cares and riches and pleasures of life, having moved along, they are choked, and do not bear to maturity.
Luke 17:26-31
26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so also it will be in the days of the Son of man.
27 They were eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage, until the day Noah went into the ark. And the flood came and destroyed all.
28 And likewise, as it was in the days of Lot, they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;
29 but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from the heaven and destroyed all.
30 Even so it will be in the day the Son of man is revealed.
31 In that day, he who will be on the housetop, let him not come down to take his goods from the house. And likewise, he in the field, let him not return to the things behind.
Luke 18:24
24 And seeing him having become very much grieved, Jesus said, How hardly those having riches shall enter into the kingdom of God!
Luke 20:4-5
John 1:11
11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.
John 5:40
40 And you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.
Acts 13:45-46
45 And the Jews seeing the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things being spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
46 But speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, It was necessary for the Word of God to be spoken first to you; but since you indeed thrust it away and judge yourselves not worthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the nations.
Acts 18:5-6
5 And when both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed by the Spirit, earnestly testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.
6 But they having resisted, and blaspheming, having shaken his garments, he said to them, Your blood be on your head. I am pure from it; from now on I will go to the nations.
Acts 28:25-27
25 And disagreeing with one another, they were let go, Paul saying one word: Well did the Holy Spirit speak through the prophet Isaiah to our fathers,
26 saying, "Go to this people and say, You will surely hear, and not at all understand; and you will surely see, and not at all perceive;
27 for the heart of this people was fattened, and they have heard with the ears heavily; and they closed their eyes lest at any time they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them." Isa. 6:9, 10
1 Timothy 6:9-10
9 But those having purposed to be rich fall into temptation, and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into destruction and loss.
10 For the love of money is a root of all evils, by means of which some having lusted after it were seduced from the faith, and they themselves pierced through by many pains.
2 Timothy 4:4
4 and they will turn away the ear from the truth and will be turned aside to myths.
2 Timothy 4:10
10 For Demas deserted me, loving the present age, and he went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
Hebrews 12:16
16 that not any fornicator, or profane one, as Esau, who for one feeding gave up his birthright;