Luke 14:18

All begin making excuses, the first pleading a newly bought field. Trivial worldly concerns become reasons to refuse God's invitation.

Cross-references · 21

• 1 Tim 6:9–10Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
• Luke 17:26–31Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:
• Luke 18:24Seeing the man’s sadness, Jesus said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!
• Jer 6:10To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.
• Matt 24:38–39For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.
• 2 Tim 4:4So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
• Isa 29:11–12And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”
• Isa 28:12–13to whom He has said: “This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.” But they would not listen.
• Jer 5:4–5Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
• 1 Jn 2:15–16Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• Luke 8:14The seeds that fell among the thorns are those who hear, but as they go on their way, they are choked by the worries, riches, and pleasures of this life, and their fruit does not mature.
• Acts 18:5–6And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself fully to the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.
• John 5:40yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.
• John 1:11He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.
• Luke 20:4–5John’s baptism—was it from heaven, or from men?”
• Heb 12:16See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.
• 2 Tim 4:10because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
• Acts 13:45–46But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.
• Matt 22:5–6But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business.
• Acts 28:25–27They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit was right when He spoke to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:
• Jer 6:16–17This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’

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