What then shall we say? That they of the nations, who did not follow after righteousness, have attained righteousness, but the righteousness that is on the principle of faith.

I am sought out of them that inquired not for me, I am found of them that sought me not; I have said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

I was made

and he saith, It is a small thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel; I have even given thee for a light of the nations, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

so shall he astonish many nations; kings shall shut their mouths at him: for what had not been told them shall they see, and what they had not heard shall they consider.

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a prince and commander to the peoples.

Thus shall the last be first, and the first last; for many are called ones, but few chosen ones.

go therefore into the thoroughfares of the highways, and as many as ye shall find invite to the wedding feast.

And the lord said to the bondman, Go out into the ways and fences and compel to come in, that my house may be filled;

We love because he has first loved us.