Proverbs 9:3

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Proverbs 9:1–5 · 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.

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

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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 22:9

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

Luke 11:49

Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.’

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.’

Luke 14:21

The servant returned and reported all this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’

Luke 14:22

‘Sir,’ the servant replied, ‘what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.’

Luke 14:23

So the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.

Romans 10:15

And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

2 Corinthians 5:20

Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 5:21

God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

Proverbs 9:14

She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city,

Proverbs 1:20

Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;

Proverbs 1:21

in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:23

If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.

Proverbs 8:1

Does not wisdom call out, and understanding raise her voice?

Proverbs 8:2

On the heights overlooking the road, at the crossroads she takes her stand.

Proverbs 8:3

Beside the gates to the city, at the entrances she cries out:

John 7:37

On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

John 18:20

“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered. “I always taught in the synagogues and at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret.