Isaiah 56:6-8
6 “And athe foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord,
and to be his servants,
everyone bwho keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it,
and holds fast my covenant—
7 cthese I will bring to dmy holy mountain,
and make them joyful in my house of prayer;
etheir burnt offerings and their sacrifices
will be accepted on my altar;
for fmy house shall be called a house of prayer
for all peoples.”
8The Lord God,
gwho gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares,
h“I will gather yet others to him
besides those already gathered.”
Isaiah 57:19
19 icreating jthe fruit of the lips.kPeace, peace, lto the far and to the near,” says the Lord,
m“and I will heal him.
Isaiah 60:10
10 nForeigners shall build up your walls,and otheir kings shall minister to you;
for in my wrath I struck you,
but in my favor I have had mercy on you.
Acts 2:39
39For pthe promise is for you and qfor your children and for all rwho are far off, everyone swhom the Lord our God calls to himself.”1 Corinthians 3:10-15
10 tAccording to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a ufoundation, and vsomeone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. 11For no one can lay a wfoundation other xthan that which is laid, ywhich is Jesus Christ. 12Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— 13 zeach one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed aaby fire, and abthe fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 14If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, ache will receive a reward. 15If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, adbut only as through fire.Ephesians 2:13-22
13But now in Christ Jesus you who once were aefar off have been brought near afby the blood of Christ. 14For aghe himself is our peace, ahwho has made us both one and has broken down aiin his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ajordinances, that he might create in himself one aknew man in place of the two, so making peace, 16and might alreconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 17And he came and ampreached peace to you who were anfar off and peace to those who were aonear. 18For apthrough him we both have aqaccess in arone Spirit to the Father. 19So then you are no longer asstrangers and aliens, ▼▼Or sojourners
but you are aufellow citizens with the saints and avmembers of the household of God, 20 awbuilt on the foundation of the axapostles and prophets, ayChrist Jesus himself being azthe cornerstone, 21 bain whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into bba holy temple in the Lord. 22In him bcyou also are being built together bdinto a dwelling place for God by ▼▼Or in
the Spirit.
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