Luke 14:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of land, and I must go out and see it; please accept my regrets.’

Cross References

Jeremiah 6:10

To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? See, their ears are closed; they cannot listen. The word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn; they take no pleasure in it.

Luke 14:17

At the time for the dinner he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’

Luke 14:19

Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please accept my regrets.’

Luke 18:24

Jesus looked at him and said, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!

Luke 8:14

As for what fell among the thorns, these are the ones who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.

John 1:11

He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him.

John 5:40

Yet you refuse to come to me to have life.

Philippians 3:4

even though I, too, have reason for confidence in the flesh. If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more:

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

2 Timothy 4:4

and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths.

Hebrews 12:16

See to it that no one becomes an immoral and godless person, as Esau was, who sold his birthright for a single meal.