Isaiah 55:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Wherefore do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread? and your labour for [that which] satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye [that which is] good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

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  • Ps 22:26 : 26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
  • Jer 31:14 : 14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.
  • Hos 8:7 : 7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
  • John 6:48-58 : 48 ‹I am that bread of life.› 49 ‹Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.› 50 ‹This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.› 51 ‹I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.› 52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat? 53 Then Jesus said unto them, ‹Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.› 54 ‹Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.› 55 ‹For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.› 56 ‹He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.› 57 ‹As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.› 58 ‹This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.›
  • Jer 2:13 : 13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
  • Exod 15:26 : 26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I [am] the LORD that healeth thee.
  • Deut 11:13 : 13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
  • Rom 9:31 : 31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
  • Rom 10:2-3 : 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
  • Rom 10:17 : 17 So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
  • Phil 3:4-7 : 4 ¶ Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: 5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, [of] the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; 6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. 7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
  • Hos 12:1 : 1 ¶ Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Behold, [is it] not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
  • Matt 15:9 : 9 ‹But in vain they do worship me, teaching› [for] ‹doctrines the commandments of men.›
  • Matt 22:4 : 4 ‹Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and› [my] ‹fatlings› [are] ‹killed, and all things› [are] ‹ready: come unto the marriage.›
  • Mark 7:14 : 14 And when he had called all the people [unto him], he said unto them, ‹Hearken unto me every one› [of you], ‹and understand:›
  • Luke 15:15-16 : 15 ‹And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.› 16 ‹And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.›
  • Luke 15:23 : 23 ‹And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill› [it]; ‹and let us eat, and be merry:›
  • Ps 34:11 : 11 ¶ Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
  • Ps 36:8 : 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
  • Ps 63:5 : 5 My soul shall be satisfied as [with] marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise [thee] with joyful lips:
  • Prov 1:33 : 33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
  • Prov 7:23 : 23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.
  • Prov 8:32 : 32 ¶ Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed [are they that] keep my ways.
  • Prov 9:5 : 5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine [which] I have mingled.
  • Eccl 6:2 : 2 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this [is] vanity, and it [is] an evil disease.
  • Isa 1:19 : 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
  • Isa 25:6 : 6 ¶ And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
  • Isa 44:20 : 20 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, [Is there] not a lie in my right hand?
  • Isa 46:6 : 6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, [and] hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
  • Isa 51:1 : 1 ¶ Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock [whence] ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit [whence] ye are digged.
  • Isa 51:4 : 4 ¶ Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
  • Isa 51:7 : 7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart [is] my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

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