Isaiah 55:2-3 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfies not? listen diligently to me… There are six arguments which I would make use of to persuade you to embrace this counsel. 1. Christ offers you the best things — better things than the world can afford you. 2. Christ offers unto you the things that are best for you. 3. You may have these earthly things upon better terms if you could close with the things which Christ doth offer. 4. Christ alone is a portion, infinitely better than all the world alone. 5. You will lose Christ, and all these things of the world too, by neglecting Christ, and preferring before Him these things of the world. 6. You cannot drive both these trades together. (O. Sedgwick, B. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. |
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