Proverbs 9:2

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Proverbs 9:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars.

2 She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table.

3 She has sent out her maidservants; she calls out from the heights of the city.

4 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

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.

Matthew 22:3

He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.

Matthew 22:4

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.’

Matthew 22:5

But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business.

Matthew 22:6

The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.

Matthew 22:7

The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.

Matthew 22:8

Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited were not worthy.

Matthew 22:9

Go therefore to the crossroads and invite to the banquet as many as you can find.’

Matthew 22:10

So the servants went out into the streets and gathered everyone they could find, both evil and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

Matthew 22:11

But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.

Matthew 22:12

‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.

Matthew 22:13

Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Matthew 22:14

For many are called, but few are chosen.”

1 Corinthians 5:7

Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

1 Corinthians 5:8

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.

Genesis 43:16

When Joseph saw Benjamin with his brothers, he said to the steward of his house, “Take these men to my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they shall dine with me at noon.”

Proverbs 9:5

“Come, eat my bread and drink the wine I have mixed.

Proverbs 23:30

Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks.

Luke 14:17

When it was time for the banquet, he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’