Hear this, everyone! Listen, all people everywhere,

My thoughts will be clear; I will speak words of wisdom.

The Almighty God, the LORD, speaks; he calls to the whole earth from east to west.

Listen, then, if you have ears!

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.

Our message is that God was making all human beings his friends through Christ. God did not keep an account of their sins, and he has given us the message which tells how he makes them his friends.

Here we are, then, speaking for Christ, as though God himself were making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ's behalf: let God change you from enemies into his friends!

You must, of course, continue faithful on a firm and sure foundation, and must not allow yourselves to be shaken from the hope you gained when you heard the gospel. It is of this gospel that I, Paul, became a servant---this gospel which has been preached to everybody in the world.

So we preach Christ to everyone. With all possible wisdom we warn and teach them in order to bring each one into God's presence as a mature individual in union with Christ.

who wants everyone to be saved and to come to know the truth.

who gave himself to redeem the whole human race. That was the proof at the right time that God wants everyone to be saved,

For God has revealed his grace for the salvation of all people.

That grace instructs us to give up ungodly living and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in this world,

The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come!" Everyone who hears this must also say, "Come!" Come, whoever is thirsty; accept the water of life as a gift, whoever wants it.