55:1
Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you
that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine
and milk without money and without price.
55:2
Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen
carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight
yourselves in rich food.
55:3
Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you
may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
my steadfast, sure love for David.
55:4
See, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and
commander for the peoples.
55:5
See, you shall call nations that you do not know, and
nations that do not know you shall run to you, because
of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has
glorified you.
55:6
Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while
he is near;
55:7
let the wicked forsake their way, and the unrighteous
their thoughts; let them return to the LORD, that he may
have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will
abundantly pardon.
55:8
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways
my ways, says the LORD.
55:9
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my
ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your
thoughts.
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63:1
O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirsts for
you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land
where there is no water.
63:2
So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding
your power and glory.
63:3
Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips
will praise you.
63:4
So I will bless you as long as I live; I will lift up my
hands and call on your name.
63:5
My soul is satisfied as with a rich feast, and my mouth
praises you with joyful lips
63:6
when I think of you on my bed, and meditate on you in
the watches of the night;
63:7
for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your
wings I sing for joy.
63:8
My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me.
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10:1
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters,
that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all
passed through the sea,
10:2
and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the
sea,
10:3
and all ate the same spiritual food,
10:4
and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank
from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock
was Christ.
10:5
Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and
they were struck down in the wilderness.
10:6
Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we
might not desire evil as they did.
10:7
Do not become idolaters as some of them did; as it is
written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and
they rose up to play."
10:8
We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them
did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.
10:9
We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did,
and were destroyed by serpents.
10:10
And do not complain as some of them did, and were
destroyed by the destroyer.
10:11
These things happened to them to serve as an example,
and they were written down to instruct us, on whom the
ends of the ages have come.
10:12
So if you think you are standing, watch out that you do
not fall.
10:13
No testing has overtaken you that is not common to
everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be
tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he
will also provide the way out so that you may be able to
endure it.
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13:1
At that very time there were some present who told him
about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with
their sacrifices.
13:2
He asked them, "Do you think that because these
Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners
than all other Galileans?
13:3
No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all
perish as they did.
13:4
Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of
Siloam fell on them--do you think that they were worse
offenders than all the others living in Jerusalem?
13:5
No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all
perish just as they did."
13:6
Then he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree
planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit
on it and found none.
13:7
So he said to the gardener, 'See here! For three years I
have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still
I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the
soil?'
13:8
He replied, 'Sir, let it alone for one more year, until
I dig around it and put manure on it.
13:9
If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not,
you can cut it down.'"
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