Then the servant said, ‘Master, I did what you told me, but there are still empty places.’
The Lord does what is right, and vindicates those who are exploited.
Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for the Lord loves us with a trustworthy love and his salvation knows no limits.
The servant returned and told his master what they'd said. The home-owner became angry and told his servant, ‘Quickly, go out into the streets and alleys of the town, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’
So the master told the servant, ‘Go out on the country roads and lanes, and make people come—I want my house to be full.
In my Father's house there are many rooms. If this wasn't so I would have told you. I'm going to prepare a place for you.
This grace was given to me, the least important of all Christians, in order to share with the foreigners the incredible value of Christ,
For the fullness of God's divine nature lives in Christ in bodily form,
Through him our sins are forgiven—and not only our sins, but those of the whole world.