Proverbs 1:24

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

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  • Isa 65:12 : 12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
  • Isa 66:4 : 4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
  • Jer 7:13 : 13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
  • Rom 10:21 : 21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
  • Ezek 8:18 : 18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
  • Zech 7:11-12 : 11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. 12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
  • Matt 22:5-6 : 5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: 6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
  • Matt 23:37-38 : 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! 38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
  • Acts 4:30 : 30 By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
  • Heb 12:25-26 : 25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
  • Ps 31:20 : 20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
  • Isa 50:2 : 2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

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  • 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reoof:

  • 23 Turn you at my reoof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

  • 13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;

  • Prov 1:28-30
    3 verses
    77%

    28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

    29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

    30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reoof.

  • 17 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of usalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.

  • 21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.

  • Isa 65:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

    2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

  • 27 Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

  • 19 Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.

  • Jer 25:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

    8 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,

  • Prov 5:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reoof;

    13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

  • 2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

  • 12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.

  • 11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

  • 20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

  • 6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

  • 13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

  • 27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.

  • Jer 26:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

    5 To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;

  • 21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

  • 4 Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.

  • 15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.

  • 6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

  • 4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.

  • 29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.

  • 13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:

  • 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

  • 16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

  • 21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

  • 1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

  • 7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

  • 33 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.

  • 17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

  • 22 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.

  • 19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

  • 22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

  • 10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

  • 14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

  • 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because tu hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that tu shalt be no priest to me: seeing tu hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

  • 7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.

  • 11 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.

  • 17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.

  • 31 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

  • 11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.