Luke 10:42

Jesus says only one thing is necessary, and Mary has chosen the good portion that will not be taken away. Communion with Christ is the lasting priority.

Cross-references · 30

• Ps 27:4One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
• Ps 16:5–6Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.
• John 10:27–28My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
• John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
• Ps 73:25Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.
• John 5:24“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
• Luke 18:22When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me.”
• Ps 17:15As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
• Ps 142:5I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
• John 17:3This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
• Mark 8:36For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
• Deut 30:19I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants;
• 1 Jn 5:11–12The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
• Ps 119:30I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.
• Rom 8:35–39Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
• Col 3:3–4For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
• Luke 12:33Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
• Luke 12:20“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared — whose will they be?’
• 1 Pet 1:4–5to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,
• Eccl 12:13This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
• Ps 119:111I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
• Luke 8:18Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”
• Josh 24:15If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
• 1 Cor 13:3If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
• Col 2:10–19and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;
• Luke 16:25“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
• Josh 24:22Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”
• Ps 119:173Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
• Luke 16:2He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’

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