The wicked run when no one is chasing them, but an honest person is as brave as a lion.

The LORD says, "Shout as loud as you can! Tell my people Israel about their sins!

And pray also for me, that God will give me a message when I am ready to speak, so that I may speak boldly and make known the gospel's secret.

For the sake of this gospel I am an ambassador, though now I am in prison. Pray that I may be bold in speaking about the gospel as I should.

So we say that the Gentiles, who were not trying to put themselves right with God, were put right with him through faith;

The LORD said, "I was ready to answer my people's prayers, but they did not pray. I was ready for them to find me, but they did not even try. The nation did not pray to me, even though I was always ready to answer, 'Here I am; I will help you.'

I have always been ready to welcome my people, who stubbornly do what is wrong and go their own way.

The LORD said to me, "I have a greater task for you, my servant. Not only will you restore to greatness the people of Israel who have survived, but I will also make you a light to the nations--- so that all the world may be saved."

But now many nations will marvel at him, and kings will be speechless with amazement. They will see and understand something they had never known."

I made him a leader and commander of nations, and through him I showed them my power.

Now you will summon foreign nations; at one time they did not know you, but now they will come running to join you! I, the LORD your God, the holy God of Israel, will make all this happen; I will give you honor and glory."

And Jesus concluded, "So those who are last will be first, and those who are first will be last."

Now go to the main streets and invite to the feast as many people as you find.'

So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, good and bad alike; and the wedding hall was filled with people.

So the master said to the servant, 'Go out to the country roads and lanes and make people come in, so that my house will be full.

We love because God first loved us.