Proverbs 9:3 Cross References - NSB

³ She sent her maidens. She cried on the highest places of the city,

¹¹ Jehovah gave the word: The women who proclaim the good news are a large army.

²⁰ Wisdom calls you! She raises her voice in the streets and marketplaces. ²¹ She calls in the streets, in the opening of the gates: in the city she utters her words. She says: ²² »How long, you simple (stupid) (foolish) ones, will you love simplicity (foolishness) (stupidity)? The scoffers delight in scoffing. Fools hate knowledge! ²³ »Listen when I reprove you. I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make my words known to you.

¹⁴ She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

¹ Does wisdom cry out? Does understanding direct her voice? ² She takes her stand on top of high places and in the street intersections. ³ She cries out at the gates, at the entrance by the doors:

³ »He sent out his servants to invite guests to the feast, but they would not come. ⁴ »Again he sent out other servants with orders to say to the guests, ‘I have prepared my feast. Oxen and fat livestock are butchered and everything is ready, so come to the feast.’

⁹ »‘Go then, to the main roads, and invite all those whom you see to come to the feast.’

⁴⁹ »It is for this reason the wisdom of God said, ‘I send to them prophets and apostles and they will persecute and kill some of them.’

¹⁷ »He sent his servant to tell the guests that everything is ready.

²¹ »The servant returned and conveyed this to his master. The master was furious. He commanded his servant to hurry into the streets and alleys of the town, and bring back the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame. ²² »The servant soon told his master, ‘Your order has been carried out but there is still more room.’ ²³ »The master told the servant, ‘Go to the country roads and lanes and make people come so my house will be full.’

³⁷ On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and shouted in a loud voice: »If any man thirst let him come to me and drink.

²⁰ Jesus answered him: »I have spoken openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple where all the Jews gathered. I spoke nothing in secret.

¹⁵ How will they preach unless they have been sent? Just as it is written: »How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace and who bring good tidings of good things! For they proclaim salvation and say to Zion: »Your God reigns as king!« (Hebrew: Elohiym’ malak’: God rules!) (Isaiah 52:7)

²⁰ We are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making entreaty through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ that you be reconciled to God. ²¹ He made the one who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf. That way we might become the righteousness of God in him.