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 6:9–10But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
• Luke 17:26–31And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
• Luke 18:24And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
• Jer 6:10To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
• Matt 24:38–39For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
• 2 Tim 4:4And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
• Isa 29:11–12And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
• Isa 28:12–13To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
• Jer 5:4–5Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
• 1 Jn 2:15–16Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• Luke 8:14And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
• Acts 18:5–6And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.
• John 5:40And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
• John 1:11He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
• Luke 20:4–5The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?
• Heb 12:16Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
• 2 Tim 4:10For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
• Acts 13:45–46But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
• Matt 22:5–6But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
• Acts 28:25–27And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,
• Jer 6:16–17Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

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