Isaiah 55:3

God calls people to come and listen so their souls may live, promising an everlasting covenant of the sure mercies of David. It matters because it links salvation to God's faithful covenant promises fulfilled in Christ.

Cross-references · 29

• Jer 32:40I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.
• Prov 4:20My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
• Matt 11:28Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
• John 10:27My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
• Acts 13:34In fact, God raised Him from the dead, never to see decay. As He has said: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’
• Gen 17:7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
• Isa 61:8For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.
• John 5:24–25Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
• John 6:37Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
• Ps 78:1A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.
• Isa 54:8In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.
• Ps 89:35–37Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness—I will not lie to David—
• Ps 89:28I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.
• Lev 18:5Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
• John 8:47Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
• Ps 119:112I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes, even to the very end.
• Matt 17:5While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”
• Jer 50:5They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
• 2 Sam 7:8–17Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.
• 2 Sam 23:5Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?
• Jer 33:26then I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore them from captivity and will have compassion on them.”
• Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
• Jer 30:9Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
• Jer 33:20–21“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,
• Ezek 37:24–25My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes.
• Matt 13:16But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.
• John 6:44–45“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
• John 7:37On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
• Rom 10:5For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”

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