1 Timothy 2:4
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4 who desires everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.(A)
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Ezekiel 18:32
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32 For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, says the Lord God. Turn, then, and live.(A)
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2 Peter 3:9
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9 The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient with you,[a] not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.(A)
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Ezekiel 18:23
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23 Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, says the Lord God, and not rather that they should turn from their ways and live?(A)
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Titus 2:11
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11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all,[a](A)
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John 3:15-17
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15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.[a](A)
16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.(B)
17 “Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through him.(C)
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Ezekiel 33:11
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11 Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from their ways and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?(A)
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2 Timothy 2:25
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25 correcting opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant that they will repent and come to know the truth(A)
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1 Timothy 4:10
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10 For to this end we toil and suffer reproach,[a] because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.(A)
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Romans 10:12-15
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12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all and is generous to all who call on him.(A) 13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”(B)
14 But how are they to call on one in whom they have not believed?[a] And how are they to believe[b] in one of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone to proclaim him? 15 And how are they to proclaim him unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”(C)
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Isaiah 45:22
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22 Turn to me and be saved,
all the ends of the earth!
For I am God, and there is no other.(A)
Luke 24:47
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47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.(A)
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Matthew 28:19
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19 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(A)
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Revelation 14:6
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The Messages of the Three Angels
6 Then I saw another angel flying in midheaven, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live[a] on the earth—to every nation and tribe and language and people.(A)
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John 14:6
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6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.(A)
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Isaiah 55:1
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An Invitation to Abundant Life
55 Hear, everyone who thirsts;
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.(A)
Titus 1:1
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Salutation
1 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and the knowledge of the truth that is in accordance with godliness,
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2 Timothy 3:7
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7 who are always studying yet never able to recognize truth.
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2 Corinthians 5:17-19
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17 So if anyone is in Christ, there[a] is a new creation: everything old has passed away; look, new things have come into being![b](A) 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation;(B) 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself,[c] not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us.(C)
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Romans 3:29-30
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29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of gentiles also? Yes, of gentiles also, 30 since God is one, and he will justify the circumcised on the ground of faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.(A)
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Luke 14:23
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23 Then the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the roads and lanes, and compel people to come in, so that my house may be filled.
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Luke 1:77
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77 to give his people knowledge of salvation
by the forgiveness of their sins.(A)
Isaiah 49:6
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6 he says,
“It is too light a thing that you should be my servant
to raise up the tribes of Jacob
and to restore the survivors of Israel;
I will give you as a light to the nations,
that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”(A)
John 17:17
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17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
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John 6:37
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37 Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and anyone who comes to me I will never drive away,(A)
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