Isaiah 55:2
Why pay out silver for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what never fills you? Pay close attention to me: eat what is good, and let your appetite delight in the finest food.
Treated in 5 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- A Short and Easy Method of Prayer ·
Prayer as Noble Action cites Isa. lv. 2
…unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness” (Isa. lv. 2). Oh, if it were known what happiness there is in thus hearkening unto God, and how the…
- Practical Religion ·
Happiness cites Isa. lv. 2
…your money on that which is not bread, and your labour for that which satisfieth not." (Isa. lv. 2.) You are building up Babels of your own contriving, and ignorant that God will pour…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 3, Chapter 14 — The Beginning of Justification cites Isaiah 55:2
…spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not?” (Isaiah 55:2). It is, indeed, an easy matter for these indolent Rabbis to carry on such discussions…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 4, Chapter 10 — Of the Power of Making Laws cites Isa. 55:2
…he elsewhere speaks, “Wherefore do you spend your money for that which is not bread”? (Isa. 55:2; 29:13). Again, “In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of…
- Our Daily Walk ·
June cites Isaiah 55:1-2
…and receive the gifts which are offered, without money and without price (Rev 3:18-20; Isaiah 55:1-2). Faith is our reception of the spiritual to make good the lack of the physical. It is a…