Matthew 21:32

God's Word

John came to you and showed you the way that God wants you to live, but you didn’t believe him. The tax collectors and prostitutes believed him. But even after you had seen that, you didn’t change your minds and believe him.

Cross References

Isaiah 35:8

A highway will be there, a roadway. It will be called the Holy Road. Sinners won’t travel on it. It will be for those who walk on it. Godless fools won’t wander ⌞onto it⌟.

Jeremiah 6:16

This is what the Lord says: Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask which paths are the old, reliable paths. Ask which way leads to blessings. Live that way, and find a resting place for yourselves. But you said that you wouldn’t live that way.

Matthew 11:18

“John came neither eating nor drinking, and people say, ‘There’s a demon in him!’

Matthew 21:25

Did John’s right to baptize come from heaven or from humans?” They discussed this among themselves. They said, “If we say, ‘from heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’

Matthew 21:31

“Which of the two sons did what the father wanted?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “I can guarantee this truth: Tax collectors and prostitutes are going into God’s kingdom ahead of you.

Matthew 5:46

If you love those who love you, do you deserve a reward? Even the tax collectors do that!

2 Timothy 2:25

He must be gentle in correcting those who oppose the Good News. Maybe God will allow them to change the way they think and act and lead them to know the truth.

Hebrews 3:12

Be careful, brothers and sisters, that none of you ever develop a wicked, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

2 Peter 2:21

It would have been better for them never to have known the way of life that God approves of than to know it and turn their backs on the holy life God told them to live.

Revelation 2:21

I gave her time to turn to me and change the way she thinks and acts, but she refuses to turn away from her sexual sins.