Pay attention and come to me! Listen, so you can live! Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to you, just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David.

Come back to me, you wayward people. I want to cure your waywardness. Say, 'Here we are. We come to you because you are the Lord our God.

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.

A living

For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,

Jesus replied, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?

When Christ (who is your life) appears, then you too will be revealed in glory with him.

Stone

Therefore, this is what the sovereign master, the Lord, says: "Look, I am laying a stone in Zion, an approved stone, set in place as a precious cornerstone for the foundation. The one who maintains his faith will not panic.

You were watching as a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its iron and clay feet, breaking them in pieces.

As for the stone I have set before Joshua -- on the one stone there are seven eyes. I am about to engrave an inscription on it,' says the Lord who rules over all, 'to the effect that I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day.

"What are you, you great mountain? Because of Zerubbabel you will become a level plain! And he will bring forth the temple capstone with shoutings of 'Grace! Grace!' because of this."

Disallowed

The stone which the builders discarded has become the cornerstone.

He will become a sanctuary, but a stone that makes a person trip, and a rock that makes one stumble -- to the two houses of Israel. He will become a trap and a snare to the residents of Jerusalem.

Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures: 'The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?

Have you not read this scripture: 'The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

But Jesus looked straight at them and said, "Then what is the meaning of that which is written: 'The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone'?

This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, that has become the cornerstone.

Chosen

"Here is my servant whom I support, my chosen one in whom I take pleasure. I have placed my spirit on him; he will make just decrees for the nations.

"Here is my servant whom I have chosen, the one I love, in whom I take great delight. I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the nations.

Precious

So you who believe see his value, but for those who do not believe, the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,

Such trials show the proven character of your faith, which is much more valuable than gold -- gold that is tested by fire, even though it is passing away -- and will bring praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

From Simeon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ, have been granted a faith just as precious as ours.

General references

I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.