Isaiah 55.1-9
The LORD says this:
1Everyone 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. 2Why do you spend your money
for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which does not
satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves
in rich food. 3Incline 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. 4See, I made him
a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. 5See,
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. 6Seek the LORD
while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; 7let
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. 8For my thoughts
are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD. 9For
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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1 Corinthians 10.1-13
1I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters,
that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all passed through the
sea, 2and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and
in the sea, 3and all ate the same spiritual food, 4and
all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual
rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. 5Nevertheless,
God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the
wilderness. 6Now these things occurred as examples for
us, so that we might not desire evil as they did. 7Do
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.’ 8We
must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three
thousand fell in a single day. 9We must not put Christ
to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents. 10And
do not complain as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
11These 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. 12So if you think you are standing, watch
out that you do not fall. 13No 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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Luke 13.1-9
1There were some present who told Jesus about the Galileans
whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2He
asked them, ‘Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in
this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? 3No,
I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did. 4Or
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?
5No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish
just as they did.’ 6Then 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. 7So 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?”
8He replied, “Sir, let it alone for one more year,
until I dig around it and put manure on it. 9If it bears
fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.”’
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