The LORD says, "Come, everyone who is thirsty--- here is water! Come, you that have no money--- buy grain and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk--- it will cost you nothing!

"Listen now, my people, and come to me; come to me, and you will have life! I will make a lasting covenant with you and give you the blessings I promised to David.

"Unfaithful people, come back; you belong to me. I will take one of you from each town and two from each clan, and I will bring you back to Mount Zion.

When someone evil stops sinning and does what is right and good, he saves his life.

And you Israelites say, 'What the Lord does isn't right.' You think my way isn't right, do you? It is your way that isn't right.

Tell them that as surely as I, the Sovereign LORD, am the living God, I do not enjoy seeing sinners die. I would rather see them stop sinning and live. Israel, stop the evil you are doing. Why do you want to die?

Return to the LORD your God, people of Israel. Your sin has made you stumble and fall.

Repent, then, and turn to God, so that he will forgive your sins. If you do,

First in Damascus and in Jerusalem and then in the whole country of Israel and among the Gentiles, I preached that they must repent of their sins and turn to God and do the things that would show they had repented.

You have ignored all my advice and have not been willing to let me correct you.

You have never wanted my advice or paid any attention when I corrected you.

Their instructions are a shining light; their correction can teach you how to live.

People who listen when they are corrected will live, but those who will not admit that they are wrong are in danger.

Any who love knowledge want to be told when they are wrong. It is stupid to hate being corrected.

If you get more stubborn every time you are corrected, one day you will be crushed and never recover.

I will proclaim your greatness, my God and king; I will thank you forever and ever.

I rebuke and punish all whom I love. Be in earnest, then, and turn from your sins.

But once more God will send us his spirit. The wasteland will become fertile, and fields will produce rich crops.

I will send victory from the sky like rain; the earth will open to receive it and will blossom with freedom and justice. I, the LORD, will make this happen."

"Afterward I will pour out my Spirit on everyone: your sons and daughters will proclaim my message; your old people will have dreams, and your young people will see visions.

"I will fill the descendants of David and the other people of Jerusalem with the spirit of mercy and the spirit of prayer. They will look at the one whom they stabbed to death, and they will mourn for him like those who mourn for an only child. They will mourn bitterly, like those who have lost their first-born son.

As bad as you are, you know how to give good things to your children. How much more, then, will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"

He says that we will look for him but will not find him, and that we cannot go where he will be. What does he mean?"

On the last and most important day of the festival Jesus stood up and said in a loud voice, "Whoever is thirsty should come to me, and

"All the people of Israel, then, are to know for sure that this Jesus, whom you crucified, is the one that God has made Lord and Messiah!"

Peter said to them, "Each one of you must turn away from your sins and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, so that your sins will be forgiven; and you will receive God's gift, the Holy Spirit.

But because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I am going to spit you out of my mouth!

I advise you, then, to buy gold from me, pure gold, in order to be rich. Buy also white clothing to dress yourself and cover up your shameful nakedness. Buy also some ointment to put on your eyes, so that you may see.