Matthew 22:8
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Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited were not worthy.
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The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy--for how should those be deemed worthy to sit down at His table who had affronted Him by their treatment of His gracious invitation?
Open source ↗22:8 Those who reject God’s invitation aren’t worthy to enter his Kingdom (cp. 3:8; 10:13, 37-38).
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All this is clear evidence of God’s righteous judgment. And so you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering.
Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.
But you do have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments, and because they are worthy, they will walk with Me in white.
Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
But those who are considered worthy to share in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage.
So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”