OPPORTUNITY

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• Proverbs 1:24

  Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

• Proverbs 1:25

  but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

• Proverbs 1:26

  I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

• Proverbs 1:27

  when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.

• Proverbs 1:28

  Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

• Proverbs 1:29

  because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

• Proverbs 1:30

  They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

• Proverbs 1:31

  Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

• Proverbs 1:32

  For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

• Proverbs 1:33

  But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”

• Jeremiah 8:20

  “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.”

• Ezekiel 3:19

  Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.”

• Ezekiel 33:1

  Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

• Ezekiel 33:2

  Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;

• Ezekiel 33:3

  if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;

• Ezekiel 33:4

  then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn’t take warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be on his own head.

• Ezekiel 33:5

  He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn’t take warning; his blood shall be on him; whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul.

• Ezekiel 33:6

  But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.

• Ezekiel 33:7

  So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

• Ezekiel 33:8

  When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.

• Ezekiel 33:9

  Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn’t turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.

• Ezekiel 33:10

  You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live?

• Ezekiel 33:11

  Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?

• Ezekiel 33:12

  You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins.

• Ezekiel 33:13

  When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die.

• Ezekiel 33:14

  Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

• Ezekiel 33:15

  if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

• Ezekiel 33:16

  None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

• Ezekiel 33:17

  Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.

• Hosea 5:6

  They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; but they won’t find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.

• Matthew 10:14

  Whoever doesn’t receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.

• Matthew 10:15

  Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

• Matthew 11:20

  Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent.

• Matthew 11:21

  “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

• Matthew 11:22

  But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.

• Matthew 11:23

  You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today.

• Matthew 11:24

  But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you.”

• Matthew 23:34

  Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

• Matthew 23:35

  that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

• Matthew 23:36

  Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

• Matthew 23:37

  “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

• Matthew 23:38

  Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

• Matthew 25:1

  “Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

• Matthew 25:2

  Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

• Matthew 25:3

  Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,

• Matthew 25:4

  but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

• Matthew 25:5

  Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

• Matthew 25:6

  But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’

• Matthew 25:7

  Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

• Matthew 25:8

  The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’

• Matthew 25:9

  But the wise answered, saying, ‘What if there isn’t enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’

• Matthew 25:10

  While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.

• Matthew 25:11

  Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’

• Matthew 25:12

  But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’

• Matthew 25:13

  Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

• Matthew 25:14

  “For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.

• Matthew 25:15

  To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.

• Matthew 25:16

  Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.

• Matthew 25:17

  In the same way, he also who got the two gained another two.

• Matthew 25:18

  But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.

• Matthew 25:19

  “Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.

• Matthew 25:20

  He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents besides them.’

• Matthew 25:21

  “His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

• Matthew 25:22

  “He also who got the two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents besides them.’

• Matthew 25:23

  “His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

• Matthew 25:24

  “He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter.

• Matthew 25:25

  I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.’

• Matthew 25:26

  “But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.

• Matthew 25:27

  You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.

• Matthew 25:28

  Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents.

• Matthew 25:29

  For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away.

• Matthew 25:30

  Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

• Matthew 25:31

  “But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.

• Matthew 25:32

  Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

• Matthew 25:33

  He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

• Matthew 25:34

  Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

• Matthew 25:35

  for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

• Matthew 25:36

  I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

• Matthew 25:37

  “Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?

• Matthew 25:38

  When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?

• Matthew 25:39

  When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?’

• Matthew 25:40

  “The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

• Matthew 25:41

  Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

• Matthew 25:42

  for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;

• Matthew 25:43

  I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’

• Matthew 25:44

  “Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’

• Matthew 25:45

  “Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

• Matthew 25:46

  These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

• Luke 12:47

  That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,

• Luke 13:25

  When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

• Luke 13:26

  Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’

• Luke 13:27

  He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’

• Luke 13:28

  There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.

• Luke 14:16

  But he said to him, “A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.

• Luke 14:17

  He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’

• Luke 14:18

  They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’

• Luke 14:19

  “Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’

• Luke 14:20

  “Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’

• Luke 14:21

  “That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’

• Luke 14:22

  “The servant said, ‘Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.’

• Luke 14:23

  “The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

• Luke 14:24

  For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’”

• Luke 19:12

  He said therefore, “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

• Luke 19:13

  He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, ‘Conduct business until I come.’

• Luke 19:14

  But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’

• Luke 19:15

  “When he had come back again, having received the kingdom, he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.

• Luke 19:16

  The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.’

• Luke 19:17

  “He said to him, ‘Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’

• Luke 19:18

  “The second came, saying, ‘Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.’

• Luke 19:19

  “So he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’

• Luke 19:20

  Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,

• Luke 19:21

  for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn’t lay down, and reap that which you didn’t sow.’

• Luke 19:22

  “He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.

• Luke 19:23

  Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’

• Luke 19:24

  He said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten minas.’

• Luke 19:25

  “They said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas!’

• Luke 19:26

  ‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

• Luke 19:27

  But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’”