"Turn to me now and be saved, people all over the world! I am the only God there is.

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."

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!

Do you think I enjoy seeing evil people die?" asks the Sovereign LORD. "No, I would rather see them repent and live.

I do not want anyone to die," says the Sovereign LORD. "Turn away from your sins and live."

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?

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.

so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to be its judge, but to be its savior.

Everyone whom my Father gives me will come to me. I will never turn away anyone who comes to me,

Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles also? Of course he is.

God is one, and he will put the Jews right with himself on the basis of their faith, and will put the Gentiles right through their faith.

Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come.

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.

who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us. How displeasing they are to God! How hostile they are to everyone!

They even tried to stop us from preaching to the Gentiles the message that would bring them salvation. In this way they have brought to completion all the sins they have always committed. And now God's anger has at last come down on them!

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

The Lord is not slow to do what he has promised, as some think. Instead, he is patient with you, because he does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants all to turn away from their sins.

Go, then, to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples: baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

He said to them, "Go throughout the whole world and preach the gospel to all people.

and in his name the message about repentance and the forgiveness of sins must be preached to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

This includes everyone, because there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles; God is the same Lord of all and richly blesses all who call to him.

But how can they call to him for help if they have not believed? And how can they believe if they have not heard the message? And how can they hear if the message is not proclaimed?

Then I saw another angel flying high in the air, with an eternal message of Good News to announce to the peoples of the earth, to every race, tribe, language, and nation.

After a life of suffering, he will again have joy; he will know that he did not suffer in vain. My devoted servant, with whom I am pleased, will bear the punishment of many and for his sake I will forgive them.

But the earth will be as full of the knowledge of the LORD's glory as the seas are full of water.

to tell his people that they will be saved by having their sins forgiven.

Jesus answered him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one goes to the Father except by me.

Dedicate them to yourself by means of the truth; your word is truth.

who is gentle as you correct your opponents, for it may be that God will give them the opportunity to repent and come to know the truth.

women who are always trying to learn but who can never come to know the truth.

For there is no longer any sacrifice that will take away sins if we purposely go on sinning after the truth has been made known to us.