Isaiah 55:2
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2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread
and your earnings for that which does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.(A)
John 6:48-58
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48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”(A)
52 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”(B) 53 So Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.(C) 54 Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day,(D) 55 for my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me and I in them.(E) 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which the ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever.”
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Jeremiah 2:13
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13 for my people have committed two evils:
they have forsaken me,
the fountain of living water,
and dug out cisterns for themselves,
cracked cisterns
that can hold no water.(A)
Psalm 36:8
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8 They feast on the abundance of your house,
and you give them drink from the river of your delights.(A)
Psalm 22:26
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26 The poor[a] shall eat and be satisfied;
those who seek him shall praise the Lord.
May your hearts live forever!(A)
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- 22.26 Or afflicted
Romans 10:2-3
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2 For I can testify that they have a zeal for God, but it is not based on knowledge.(A) 3 Not knowing the righteousness of God and seeking to establish their own, they have not submitted to God’s righteousness.(B)
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Hebrews 13:9
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9 Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by regulations about food,[a] which have not benefited those who observe them.(A)
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- 13.9 Gk not by foods
Jeremiah 31:14
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14 I will give the priests their fill of fatness,
and my people shall be satisfied with my bounty,
says the Lord.(A)
Habakkuk 2:13
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13 Is it not from the Lord of hosts
that peoples labor only to feed the flames
and nations weary themselves for nothing?
Hosea 8:7
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7 For they sow the wind,
and they shall reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
it shall yield no meal;
if it were to yield,
foreigners would devour it.(A)
Isaiah 51:7
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7 Listen to me, you who know righteousness,
you people who have my teaching in your hearts;
do not fear the reproach of others,
and do not be dismayed when they revile you.(A)
Mark 7:14
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14 Then he called the crowd again and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand:
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Matthew 22:4
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4 Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding banquet.’(A)
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Isaiah 51:1
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51 Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness,
you who seek the Lord.
Look to the rock from which you were hewn
and to the quarry from which you were dug.(A)
Psalm 63:5
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- 63.5 Heb with fat and fatness
Romans 9:31
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31 but Israel, who did strive for the law of righteousness, did not attain that law.(A)
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Matthew 15:9
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9 in vain do they worship me,
teaching human precepts as doctrines.’ ”(A)
Isaiah 51:4
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4 Listen to me, my people,
and give heed to me, my nation,
for a teaching will go out from me
and my justice for a light to the peoples.(A)
Isaiah 1:19
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19 If you are willing and obedient,
you shall eat the good of the land,(A)
Proverbs 9:5
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5 “Come, eat of my bread
and drink of the wine I have mixed.(A)
Psalm 34:11
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11 Come, O children, listen to me;
I will teach you the fear of the Lord.(A)
Romans 10:17
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17 So faith[a] comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the word of Christ.[b]
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Luke 15:23
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23 And get the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate,
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Hosea 12:1
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12 Ephraim herds the wind
and pursues the east wind all day long;
they multiply falsehood and violence;
they make a treaty with Assyria,
and oil is carried to Egypt.(A)
Isaiah 46:6
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6 Those who lavish gold from the purse
and weigh out silver in the scales—
they hire a goldsmith, who makes it into a god;
then they fall down and worship!(A)
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