Isaiah 55:2

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Isaiah 55:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!

2 Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.

3 Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.

4 Behold, I have made him a witness to the nations, a leader and commander of the peoples.

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Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

Jeremiah 2:13

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Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim chases the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.

Habakkuk 2:13

Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?

Matthew 15:9

They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”

Luke 15:15

So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.

Luke 15:16

He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.

Romans 9:31

but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.

Romans 10:2

For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.

Romans 10:3

Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

Philippians 3:4

though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:

Philippians 3:5

circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;

Philippians 3:6

as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.

Philippians 3:7

But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.

Isaiah 46:6

They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.

Isaiah 51:1

“Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn.

Isaiah 51:4

Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice will become a light to the nations; I will bring it about quickly.

Isaiah 51:7

Listen to Me, you who know what is right, you people with My law in your hearts: Do not fear the scorn of men; do not be broken by their insults.

Exodus 15:26

saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”

Deuteronomy 11:13

So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Psalms 34:11

Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

Proverbs 1:33

But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”

Proverbs 7:23

until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare— not knowing it will cost him his life.

Proverbs 8:32

Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

Mark 7:14

Once again Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, “All of you, listen to Me and understand:

Romans 10:17

Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

Isaiah 25:6

On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.

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The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!

Psalms 36:8

They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.

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Again, he sent other servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’

Luke 15:23

Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let us feast and celebrate.

John 6:48

I am the bread of life.

John 6:49

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.

John 6:50

This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

John 6:51

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”

John 6:52

At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

John 6:53

So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.

John 6:54

Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6:55

For My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink.

John 6:56

Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.

John 6:57

Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

John 6:58

This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”