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Exodus
17:1-7
Psalm 95
Romans 5:1-11
John 4:5-42
Exodus17:1-7
17:1 From the
wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the Israelites
journeyed by stages, as the LORD commanded. They camped at
Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
17:2
The people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to
drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me?
Why do you test the LORD?"
17:3
But the people thirsted there for water; and the people complained
against Moses and said, "Why did you bring us out of Egypt,
to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?"
17:4
So Moses cried out to the LORD, "What shall I do with this
people? They are almost ready to stone me."
17:5
The LORD said to Moses, "Go on ahead of the people, and take
some of the elders of Israel with you; take in your hand the staff
with which you struck the Nile, and go.
17:6
I will be standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb.
Strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people
may drink." Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of
Israel.
17:7
He called the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites
quarreled and tested the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us
or not?"
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Psalm
95
95:1 O come, let us
sing to the LORD; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our
salvation!
95:2
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a
joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
95:3
For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
95:4
In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the
mountains are his also.
95:5
The sea is his, for he made it, and the dry land, which his hands
have formed.
95:6
O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the LORD,
our Maker!
95:7
For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the
sheep of his hand. O that today you would listen to his voice!
95:8
Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah
in the wilderness,
95:9
when your ancestors tested me, and put me to the proof, though
they had seen my work.
95:10
For forty years I loathed that generation and said, "They are
a people whose hearts go astray, and they do not regard my
ways."
95:11
Therefore in my anger I swore, "They shall not enter my
rest."
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Romans
5:1-11
5:1 Therefore, since we
are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord
Jesus Christ,
5:2
through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we
stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God.
5:3
And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing
that suffering produces endurance,
5:4
and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
5:5
and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been
poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given
to us.
5:6
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for
the ungodly.
5:7
Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a righteous person--though
perhaps for a good person someone might actually dare to die.
5:8
But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners
Christ died for us.
5:9
Much more surely then, now that we have been justified by his
blood, will we be saved through him from the wrath of God.
5:10
For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through
the death of his Son, much more surely, having been reconciled,
will we be saved by his life.
5:11
But more than that, we even boast in God through our Lord Jesus
Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
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John
4:5-42
4:5 So he came to a
Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob
had given to his son Joseph.
4:6
Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was
sitting by the well. It was about noon.
4:7
A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her,
"Give me a drink."
4:8
(His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.)
4:9
The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew,
ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?" (Jews do not share
things in common with Samaritans.)
4:10
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it
is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked
him, and he would have given you living water."
4:11
The woman said to him, "Sir, you have no bucket, and the well
is deep. Where do you get that living water?
4:12
Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and
with his sons and his flocks drank from it?"
4:13
Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be
thirsty again,
4:14
but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never
be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a
spring of water gushing up to eternal life."
4:15
The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I
may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw
water."
4:16
Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come
back."
4:17
The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said
to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband';
4:18
for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not
your husband. What you have said is true!"
4:19
The woman said to him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet.
4:20
Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you say that the
place where people must worship is in Jerusalem."
4:21
Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming
when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in
Jerusalem.
4:22
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for
salvation is from the Jews.
4:23
But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers
will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks
such as these to worship him.
4:24
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit
and truth."
4:25
The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming"
(who is called Christ). "When he comes, he will proclaim all
things to us."
4:26
Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who is speaking to
you."
4:27
Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was
speaking with a woman, but no one said, "What do you
want?" or, "Why are you speaking with her?"
4:28
Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She
said to the people,
4:29
"Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done!
He cannot be the Messiah, can he?"
4:30
They left the city and were on their way to him.
4:31
Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, "Rabbi, eat
something."
4:32
But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know
about."
4:33
So the disciples said to one another, "Surely no one has
brought him something to eat?"
4:34
Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who
sent me and to complete his work.
4:35
Do you not say, 'Four months more, then comes the harvest'? But I
tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for
harvesting.
4:36
The reaper is already receiving wages and is gathering fruit for
eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.
4:37
For here the saying holds true, 'One sows and another reaps.'
4:38
I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have
labored, and you have entered into their labor."
4:39
Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the
woman's testimony, "He told me everything I have ever
done."
4:40
So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with
them; and he stayed there two days.
4:41
And many more believed because of his word.
4:42
They said to the woman, "It is no longer because of what you
said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know
that this is truly the Savior of the world."
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