Bible Verses About The Call of God

but when he sent his slaves to summon the invited guests to the wedding, they refused to come.

So he sent some more slaves, instructing them to tell the guests, `Look, I've prepared my banquet, I've slaughtered my bulls and my fattened cattle, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding!'

But they weren't interested and went off, one to his farm, another to his business;

and the rest grabbed his slaves, mistreated them and killed them.

The king was furious and sent his soldiers, who killed those murderers and burned down their city.

So whatever they tell you, take care to do it. But don't do what they do, because they talk but don't act!

They tie heavy loads onto people's shoulders but won't lift a finger to help carry them

Everything they do is done to be seen by others; for they make their t'fillin broad and their tzitziyot long,

they love the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues,

and they love being greeted deferentially in the marketplaces and being called `Rabbi.'

"But you are not to let yourselves be called `Rabbi'; because you have one Rabbi, and you are all each other's brothers.

And do not call anyone on earth `Father.' because you have one Father, and he is in heaven.

Some were convinced by what he said,

while others refused to believe. So they left, disagreeing among themselves, after Sha’ul had made one final statement: “The Ruach HaKodesh spoke well in saying to your fathers through Yesha‘yahu the prophet,

‘Go to this people and say, “You will keep on hearing but never understand, and you will keep on seeing but never perceive,

because the heart of this people has grown thick — with their ears they barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, for fear that they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and do t’shuvah, so that I could heal them.”’

just as the Tanakh says, “God has given them a spirit of dullness — eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear, right down to the present day.”

And David says, “Let their dining table become for them a snare and a trap, a pitfall and a punishment.

Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see, with their backs bent continually.”

Therefore, we must pay much more careful heed to the things we have heard, so that we will not drift away.

For if the word God spoke through angels became binding, so that every violation and act of disobedience received its just deserts in full measure,

then how will we escape if we ignore such a great deliverance? This deliverance, which was first declared by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him;