Gentiles

and there having been much disputing, Peter having risen up said unto them, `Men, brethren, ye know that from former days, God among us did make choice, through my mouth, for the nations to hear the word of the good news, and to believe; — read the full passage →

and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock--one shepherd.

where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman--but the all and in all--Christ.

`Be it known, therefore, to you, that to the nations was sent the salvation of God, these also will hear it;'

This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, — read the full passage →

that to the nations the blessing of Abraham may come in Christ Jesus, that the promise of the Spirit we may receive through the faith.

And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, — read the full passage →

And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, `Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious; — read the full passage →

and having come and gathered together the assembly, they declared as many things as God did with them, and that He did open to the nations a door of faith;

for sufficient to us <FI>is<Fi> the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

and they shall fall by the mouth of the sword, and shall be led captive to all the nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by nations, till the times of nations be fulfilled.

and he was reasoning in the synagogue every sabbath, persuading both Jews and Greeks. — read the full passage →

The God of Jews only <FI>is He<Fi> , and not also of nations?

to me--the less than the least of all the saints--was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news--the untraceable riches of the Christ, — read the full passage →

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

And the apostles and the brethren who are in Judea heard that also the nations did receive the word of God, — read the full passage →

for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these;

For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret--that ye may not be wise in your own conceits--that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;

And there was a certain man in Caesarea, by name Cornelius, a centurion from a band called Italian, — read the full passage →

For to you I speak--to the nations--inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify;

And the apostles and the brethren who are in Judea heard that also the nations did receive the word of God,

and the nations for kindness to glorify God, according as it hath been written, `Because of this I will confess to Thee among nations, and to Thy name I will sing praise,' — read the full passage →

And the Lord said unto him, `Be going on, because a choice vessel to Me is this one, to bear My name before nations and kings--the sons also of Israel;

I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation <FI>is<Fi> to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;

that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;

`And--praying--ye may not use vain repetitions like the nations, for they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety--God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!

Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man--every one who is judging--for in that in which thou dost judge the other, thyself thou dost condemn, for the same things thou dost practise who art judging, — read the full passage →

but rise, and stand upon thy feet, for for this I appeared to thee, to appoint thee an officer and a witness both of the things thou didst see, and of the things <FI>in which<Fi> I will appear to thee, — read the full passage →

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

and those of the circumcision believing were astonished--as many as came with Peter--because also upon the nations the gift of the Holy Spirit hath been poured out,

and they shall come from east and west, and from north and south, and shall recline in the reign of God,

that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,

<FI> no,<Fi> but that the things that the nations sacrifice--they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons.

not only out of Jews, but also out of nations,

And they, having heard these things, were silent, and were glorifying God, saying, `Then, indeed, also to the nations did God give the reformation to life.'

in which they think it strange--your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,

for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren--`If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;' — read the full passage →

that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, — read the full passage →

After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands,

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry-- — read the full passage →

But I say, Did not Israel know? first Moses saith, `I will provoke you to jealousy by <FI>that which is<Fi> not a nation; by an unintelligent nation I will anger you,'

for there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all <FI>is<Fi> rich to all those calling upon Him,

And he said unto them, `Ye know how it is unlawful for a man, a Jew, to keep company with, or to come unto, one of another race, but to me God did shew to call no man common or unclean;

and I say to you, that many from east and west shall come and recline (at meat) with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the reign of the heavens,

and if the fall of them <FI>is<Fi> the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them?

for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness. — read the full passage →

to his own things he came, and his own people did not receive him; — read the full passage →

And Jesus having come forth thence, withdrew to the parts of Tyre and Sidon, — read the full passage →

and as many as by this rule do walk--peace upon them, and kindness, and on the Israel of God!

we by nature Jews, and not sinners of the nations,

I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation <FI>is<Fi> to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy; — read the full passage →

who in the past generations did suffer all the nations to go on in their ways,

Also you--being dead in the trespasses and the sins, — read the full passage →

and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, lest in vain I might run or did run;

These twelve did Jesus send forth, having given command to them, saying, `To the way of the nations go not away, and into a city of the Samaritans go not in,

therefore ye may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we put round?

for the things in secret done by them it is a shame even to speak of,

and Paul waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, beholding the city wholly given to idolatry,

And certain of them did believe, and attached themselves to Paul and to Silas, also of the worshipping Greeks a great multitude, of the principal women also not a few.

forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always, but the anger did come upon them--to the end!

ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,