Quotes about Contrast
One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket contained very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten.
— Jeremiah 24:2
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
— Lamentations 4:3
Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.
— Lamentations 4:5
Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.
— Lamentations 4:5
“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.
— Amos 4:7
Otherwise, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Look, those who wear fine clothing are found in kings’ palaces.
— Matthew 11:8
When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.
— Matthew 13:26
Otherwise, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Look, those who wear elegant clothing and live in luxury are found in palaces.
— Luke 7:25
You did not greet Me with a kiss, but she has not stopped kissing My feet since I arrived.
— Luke 7:45
There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the splendor of the heavenly bodies is of one degree, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is of another.
— 1 Corinthians 15:40
The spiritual, however, was not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.
— 1 Corinthians 15:46
To the one, we are an odor of death and demise; to the other, a fragrance that brings life. And who is qualified for such a task?
— 2 Corinthians 2:16