Luke 15:13

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

For with you is the spring of life. In your light we will see light.

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters flowed out from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the front of the house faced toward the east. The waters came down from underneath, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar.

If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.

Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures forever.

Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “It’s not wrong,” is a partner with a destroyer.

Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,

“Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

It shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;

They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.

He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure.

Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.

Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.

Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!

You have rejected me,” says Yahweh. “You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion.

For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,

that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.” ’

Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

It will happen that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and will say, “Please put me into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.” ’ ”

Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.

lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.

“They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another.”

a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.

Everyone who makes a carved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.

Do they provoke me to anger?” says Yahweh. “Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”

For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the ax.

Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.

Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.

Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”

“Come,” say they, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”

Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’

For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.

He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

When they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost.”

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.

receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;