who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; so turn, and live.”
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord God, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,
that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?
correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”
For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.
“Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness,
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
“Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled.
to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins,
he says: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them at last!
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