Bible verse
So the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.
Luke 14:23 · BSB
The verses around it, from Luke 14.
19 Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out. Please excuse me.’
20 Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, so I cannot come.’
21 The servant returned and reported all this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’
22 ‘Sir,’ the servant replied, ‘what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.’
23 So the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.
24 For I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will taste my banquet.’”
25 Large crowds were now traveling with Jesus, and He turned and said to them,
26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
27 And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.
KJV
And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel [them] to come in, that my house may be filled.
ASV
And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and constrain them to come in, that my house may be filled.
ERV
And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and constrain them to come in, that my house may be filled.
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