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.
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.
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.
See, I made him a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander for the peoples.
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.
Seek the LORD while he may be found,
call upon him while he is near;
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.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
For as the rain and the snow come down from
heaven,
and do not return there until they have watered
the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to the sower and bread to the
eater,
so shall my word be that goes out from my
mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
For you shall go out in joy,
and be led back in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
shall burst into song,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their
hands.
Isaiah 55:1-12
"Come to me, all you that are weary and
are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke
upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and
you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden
is light."
Matthew 11:28-30
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had
heard, "Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than
John" — although it was not Jesus himself but his disciples
who baptized — he left Judea and started back to Galilee. But he
had to go through Samaria. So he came to a Samaritan city called
Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son
Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey,
was sitting by the well. It was about noon.
A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus
said to her, "Give me a drink." (His disciples had gone to
the city to buy food.) 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.) 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." The woman said to him, "Sir,
you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that
living water? Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us
the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?" Jesus
said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty
again, 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." 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."
John 4:1-15
As we work together with him, we urge you also
not to accept the grace of God in vain. For he says,
"At an acceptable time I have listened to
you,
and on a day of salvation I have helped
you."
See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is
the day of salvation! We are putting no obstacle in anyone's way, so
that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God
we have commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in
afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots,
labors, sleepless nights, hunger; by purity, knowledge, patience,
kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love, truthful speech, and the
power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand
and for the left; in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good
repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown,
and yet are well known; as dying, and see — we are alive; as
punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as
poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
2 Corinthians 6:1-10
I am the root and the descendant of David, the
bright morning star."
The Spirit and the bride say,
"Come."
And let everyone who hears say,
"Come."
And let everyone who is thirsty come.
Let anyone who wishes take the water of life as
a gift.
Revelation 22:17
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