Isaiah 55:2 Cross References
Isaiah 55:2
2: Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength? Why pay for food that does you no good? Listen, and I will tell you where to get food that is good for the soul!
Psalms 22:26
- The poor will eat and be satisfied. All who seek the LORD will praise him. Their hearts will rejoice with everlasting joy.
Romans 10:2
- I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal.
- For they don't understand God's way of making people right with himself. Instead, they are clinging to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. They won't go along with God's way.
John 6:48
- Yes, I am the bread of life!
- Your ancestors ate manna in the wilderness, but they all died.
- However, the bread from heaven gives eternal life to everyone who eats it.
- I am the living bread that came down out of heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever; this bread is my flesh, offered so the world may live."
- Then the people began arguing with each other about what he meant. "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" they asked.
Jeremiah 2:13
- For my people have done two evil things: They have forsaken me--the fountain of living water. And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all!
Hosea 8:7
- "They have planted the wind and will harvest the whirlwind. The stalks of wheat wither, producing no grain. And if there is any grain, foreigners will eat it.
Habakkuk 2:13
- Has not the LORD Almighty promised that the wealth of nations will turn to ashes? They work so hard, but all in vain!
Hebrews 13:9
- So do not be attracted by strange, new ideas. Your spiritual strength comes from God's special favor, not from ceremonial rules about food, which don't help those who follow them.
Jeremiah 31:14
- I will supply the priests with an abundance of offerings. I will satisfy my people with my bounty. I, the LORD, have spoken!"
Mark 7:14
- Then Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear. "All of you listen," he said, "and try to understand.
Matthew 22:4
- So he sent other servants to tell them, 'The feast has been prepared, and choice meats have been cooked. Everything is ready. Hurry!'
Isaiah 51:7
- "Listen to me, you who know right from wrong and cherish my law in your hearts. Do not be afraid of people's scorn or their slanderous talk.
Matthew 15:9
- Their worship is a farce, for they replace God's commands with their own man-made teachings.'"
Psalms 36:8
- You feed them from the abundance of your own house, letting them drink from your rivers of delight.
Romans 9:31
- But the Jews, who tried so hard to get right with God by keeping the law, never succeeded.
Isaiah 51:1
- "Listen to me, all who hope for deliverance--all who seek the LORD! Consider the quarry from which you were mined, the rock from which you were cut!
Isaiah 1:19
- If you will only obey me and let me help you, then you will have plenty to eat.
Psalms 63:5
- You satisfy me more than the richest of foods. I will praise you with songs of joy.
Proverbs 9:5
- "Come, eat my food, and drink the wine I have mixed.
Deuteronomy 11:13
- "If you carefully obey all the commands I am giving you today, and if you love the LORD your God with all your heart and soul, and if you worship him,
Isaiah 51:4
- "Listen to me, my people. Hear me, Israel, for my law will be proclaimed, and my justice will become a light to the nations.
Ecclesiastes 6:2
- God gives great wealth and honor to some people and gives them everything they could ever want, but then he doesn't give them the health to enjoy it. They die, and others get it all! This is meaningless--a sickening tragedy.
Proverbs 8:32
- "And so, my children, listen to me, for happy are all who follow my ways.
Romans 10:17
- Yet faith comes from listening to this message of good news--the Good News about Christ.
Isaiah 46:6
- Some people pour out their silver and gold and hire a craftsman to make a god from it. Then they bow down and worship it!
Exodus 15:26
- "If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in his sight, obeying his commands and laws, then I will not make you suffer the diseases I sent on the Egyptians; for I am the LORD who heals you."
Psalms 34:11
- Come, my children, and listen to me, and I will teach you to fear the LORD.
Luke 15:23
- And kill the calf we have been fattening in the pen. We must celebrate with a feast,
Isaiah 25:6
- In Jerusalem, the LORD Almighty will spread a wonderful feast for everyone around the world. It will be a delicious feast of good food, with clear, well-aged wine and choice beef.
Luke 15:15
- He persuaded a local farmer to hire him to feed his pigs.
- The boy became so hungry that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him. But no one gave him anything.
Philippians 3:4
- Yet I could have confidence in myself if anyone could. If others have reason for confidence in their own efforts, I have even more!
- For I was circumcised when I was eight days old, having been born into a pure-blooded Jewish family that is a branch of the tribe of Benjamin. So I am a real Jew if there ever was one! What's more, I was a member of the Pharisees, who demand the strictest obedience to the Jewish law.
- And zealous? Yes, in fact, I harshly persecuted the church. And I obeyed the Jewish law so carefully that I was never accused of any fault.
- I once thought all these things were so very important, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done.
Hosea 12:1
- The people of Israel feed on the wind; they chase after the east wind all day long. They multiply lies and violence; they make alliances with Assyria and cut deals with the Egyptians.
Proverbs 7:23
- awaiting the arrow that would pierce its heart. He was like a bird flying into a snare, little knowing it would cost him his life.
Proverbs 1:33
- But all who listen to me will live in peace and safety, unafraid of harm."
Isaiah 44:20
- The poor, deluded fool feeds on ashes. He is trusting something that can give him no help at all. Yet he cannot bring himself to ask, "Is this thing, this idol that I'm holding in my hand, a lie?"