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 those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
• Luke 17:26–31As it was in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man.
• Luke 18:24Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!
• Jer 6:10To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
• Matt 24:38–39For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship,
• 2 Tim 4:4and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.
• Isa 29:11–12All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please”; and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed:”
• Isa 28:12–13to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to weary”; and “This is the refreshing”; yet they would not hear.
• Jer 5:4–5Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God.
• 1 Jn 2:15–16Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
• Luke 8:14That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.
• Acts 18:5–6But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
• John 5:40Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
• John 1:11He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.
• Luke 20:4–5the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?”
• Heb 12:16lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
• 2 Tim 4:10for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
• Acts 13:45–46But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
• Matt 22:5–6But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,
• Acts 28:25–27When they didn’t agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one word, “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah, the prophet, to our fathers,
• Jer 6:16–17Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

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