Bible Cross References
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Isaiah 5:1-7
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Listen while I sing you this song, a song of my friend and his vineyard: My friend had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
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He dug the soil and cleared it of stones; he planted the finest vines. He built a tower to guard them, dug a pit for treading the grapes. He waited for the grapes to ripen, but every grape was sour.
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So now my friend says, "You people who live in Jerusalem and Judah, judge between my vineyard and me.
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Is there anything I failed to do for it? Then why did it produce sour grapes and not the good grapes I expected?
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"Here is what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge around it, break down the wall that protects it, and let wild animals eat it and trample it down.
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I will let it be overgrown with weeds. I will not trim the vines or hoe the ground; instead, I will let briers and thorns cover it. I will even forbid the clouds to let rain fall on it."
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Israel is the vineyard of the LORD Almighty; the people of Judah are the vines he planted. He expected them to do what was good, but instead they committed murder. He expected them to do what was right, but their victims cried out for justice.
Ezekiel 15:1-5
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The LORD spoke to me.
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"Mortal man," he said, "how does a vine compare with a tree? What good is a branch of a grapevine compared with the trees of the forest?
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Can you use it to make anything? Can you even make a peg out of it to hang things on?
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It is only good for building a fire. And when the ends are burned up and the middle is charred, can you make anything out of it?
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It was useless even before it was burned. Now that the fire has burned it and charred it, it is even more useless."
Nahum 2:2
(The LORD is about to restore the glory of Israel, as it was before her enemies plundered her.)
John 15:1-6
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"I am the real vine, and my Father is the gardener.
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He breaks off every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and he prunes every branch that does bear fruit, so that it will be clean and bear more fruit.
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You have been made clean already by the teaching I have given you.
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Remain united to me, and I will remain united to you. A branch cannot bear fruit by itself; it can do so only if it remains in the vine. In the same way you cannot bear fruit unless you remain in me.
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"I am the vine, and you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will bear much fruit; for you can do nothing without me.
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Those who do not remain in me are thrown out like a branch and dry up; such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, where they are burned.
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Zechariah 7:5
He said, "Tell the people of the land and the priests that when they fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months during these seventy years, it was not in honor of me.
Zechariah 7:6
And when they ate and drank, it was for their own satisfaction."
Romans 14:7
We do not live for ourselves only, and we do not die for ourselves only.
Romans 14:8
If we live, it is for the Lord that we live, and if we die, it is for the Lord that we die. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:16
No longer, then, do we judge anyone by human standards. Even if at one time we judged Christ according to human standards, we no longer do so.
Philippians 2:21
Everyone else is concerned only with their own affairs, not with the cause of Jesus Christ.
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Hosea 2:8
She would never acknowledge that I am the one who gave her the grain, the wine, the olive oil, and all the silver and gold that she used in the worship of Baal.
Hosea 8:4
"My people chose kings, but they did it on their own. They appointed leaders, but without my approval. They took their silver and gold and made idols---for their own destruction.
Hosea 8:11
"The more altars the people of Israel build for removing sin, the more places they have for sinning!
Hosea 12:8
'We are rich,' they say. 'We've made a fortune. And no one can accuse us of getting rich dishonestly.'
Hosea 12:11
Yet idols are worshiped in Gilead, and those who worship them will die. Bulls are sacrificed in Gilgal, and the altars there will become piles of stone in the open fields."
Hosea 13:2
They still keep on sinning by making metal images to worship---idols of silver, designed by human minds, made by human hands. And then they say, "Offer sacrifices to them!" How can anyone kiss those idols---idols in the shape of bulls!
Hosea 13:6
But when you entered the good land, you became full and satisfied, and then you grew proud and forgot me.
Jeremiah 2:28
"Where are the gods that you made for yourselves? When you are in trouble, let them save you---if they can! Judah, you have as many gods as you have cities.
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Leviticus 26:1
The LORD said, "Do not make idols or set up statues, stone pillars, or carved stones to worship. I am the LORD your God.
1 Kings 14:23
They built places of worship for false gods and put up stone pillars and symbols of Asherah to worship on the hills and under shady trees.