Matthew 11:17
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17 “‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;
we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’
Isaiah 28:9-13
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9 (A)“To whom will he teach knowledge,
and to whom will he explain the message?
Those who are weaned from the milk,
those taken from the breast?
10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little.”
11 (B)For by people of strange lips
and with a foreign tongue
the Lord will speak to this people,
12 to whom he has said,
(C)“This is rest;
give rest to the weary;
and this is repose”;
yet they would not hear.
13 And the word of the Lord will be to them
precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little,
(D)that they may go, and fall backward,
and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Isaiah 30:29
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29 You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, (A)as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to (B)the mountain of the Lord, to (C)the Rock of Israel.
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1 Corinthians 9:19-23
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19 For (A)though I am free from all, (B)I have made myself a servant to all, that I might (C)win more of them. 20 (D)To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. 21 To (E)those outside the law I became (F)as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but (G)under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. 22 (H)To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. (I)I have become all things to all people, that (J)by all means I might save some. 23 I do it all for the sake of the gospel, (K)that I may share with them in its blessings.
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Matthew 9:23
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23 And when Jesus came to the ruler's house and saw (A)the flute players and the crowd making a commotion,
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Matthew 9:15
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15 And Jesus said to them, (A)“Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? (B)The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and (C)then they will fast.
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Jeremiah 31:4
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4 (A)Again I will build you, and you shall be built,
O virgin Israel!
(B)Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines
and shall go forth in (C)the dance of the merrymakers.
Jeremiah 9:17-20
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17 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
(A)“Consider, and call for the mourning women to come;
send for the skillful women to come;
18 let them make haste (B)and raise a wailing over us,
(C)that our eyes may run down with tears
and our eyelids flow with water.
19 For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
(D)‘How we are ruined!
We are utterly shamed,
because we have left the land,
because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
20 Hear, O women, the word of the Lord,
and let your ear receive the word of his mouth;
teach to your daughters a lament,
and each to her neighbor a dirge.
1 Kings 1:40
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40 And all the people went up after him, playing on pipes, and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth was split by their noise.
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Luke 15:25
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25 “Now his older son was in the field, and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.
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