Bible Verses about “hedges”

“For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?”

“But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;”

“and you will be blessed, because they don't have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous."”

“Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,”

“saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.'”

“He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don't call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.”

“"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.”

“The angel of Yahweh encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.”

“So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.”

“Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple.”

“Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?”

“Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.”

“They all as one began to make excuses. "The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.'”

“"Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.'”

“"Another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I can't come.'”

“The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.”

“The words of Yahweh are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.”

“Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,”

“Haven't you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.”

“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted."”

“"That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.'”

“But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, 'Friend, move up higher.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.”

“You will keep them, Yahweh. You will preserve them from this generation forever.”

“But he said to him, "A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.”

“He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, 'Come, for everything is ready now.'”

“"The lord said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.”

“Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?”

“It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."”

“"The servant said, 'Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.'”

“For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.'"”

“"When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, don't sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him,”

“and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, 'Make room for this person.' Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.”

“When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, "Blessed is he who will feast in the Kingdom of God!"”

“Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.”

“He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,”

“He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.”

“It happened, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him.”

“Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.”

“Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"”

“But they were silent. He took him, and healed him, and let him go.”

“He answered them, "Which of you, if your son or an ox fell into a well, wouldn't immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?"”

“They couldn't answer him regarding these things.”