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\nMatthew 22:1\u00a0 <\/span>And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, \u201cThe kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, \u2018Tell those who are invited, \u201cSee, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.\u201d\u2019 But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, \u2018The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy. Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.\u2019 And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests. \u201cBut when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. And he said to him, Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?\u2019 And he was speechless. Then the king said to the attendants, \u2018Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.\u2019 For many are called, but few are chosen.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Romans 7:4<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Revelation 21:2<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Revelation 21:9<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, \u201cCome, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Proverbs 1:24-32<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded,\u00a0\u00a0because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof,\u00a0\u00a0I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you,\u00a0\u00a0when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.\u00a0\u00a0Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.\u00a0\u00a0Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD,\u00a0\u00a0would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof,\u00a0\u00a0therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices.\u00a0\u00a0For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them;<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Jeremiah 6:16-17<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Thus says the LORD: \u201cStand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, \u2018We will not walk in it.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0I set watchmen over you, saying, \u2018Pay attention to the sound of the trumpet!\u2019 But they said, \u2018We will not pay attention.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Hosea 11:2<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0The more they were called, the more they went away;<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Hosea 11:7<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0My people are bent on turning away from me, and though they call out to the Most High, he shall not raise them up at all<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Romans 10:21<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0But of Israel he says, \u201cAll day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Hebrews 12:25<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Matthew 7:13-14<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cEnter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.\u00a0\u00a0For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Luke 13:28<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Matthew 13:50<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.<\/p>\n