Bible verses about "gentiles" | Living_Oracles

³ For the time which has passed of life, is sufficient to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, having walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excesses in wine, revellings, carousals, and abominable idolatries.

²² Paul, therefore, standing up in the middle of Areopagus, said, Athenians, I perceive that you are exceedingly addicted to the worship of demons. ²³ For, as I passed along, and beheld the objects of your worship, I found an altar with this inscription, To the Unknown God: Him, therefore, you ignorantly worship, I announce to you. ²⁴ The God who made the world, and all things that are in it, being the Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands: ²⁵ Neither is he served by human hands, as if he stood in need of anything; he himself giving to all, life, and breath, and all things. ²⁶ And he has made of one blood, the whole race of men, to inhabit all the face of the earth; having marked out the times previously arranged in order, and the boundaries of their habitations: ²⁷ that they might seek after the Lord, if possibly they might feel after him, and find him; though he be not far from every one of us:

²² Yet God, willing to show his wrath, and make know his power, did bear, with much long-suffering, the vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction. ²³ And that he might make known the riches of his glory, on the vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory: ²⁴ even us, whom he has called; not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles. ²⁵ Even as he says, by Hosea, "They shall be called my people, who were not my people; and she beloved, who was not beloved. ²⁶ And it shall come to pass, in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people; there they shall be called, Sons of the living God." ²⁷ Besides, Isaiah cries, concerning Israel, "Through the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant shall be saved. ²⁸ For he was about to complete and hasten his work in righteousness; for a short work will the Lord make upon this land." ²⁹ And, as Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we should have become as Sodom, and been made like to Gomorrah." ³⁰ What shall we say, then, that the Gentiles, who did not seek after justification, have attained justification, even a justification which is by faith?

¹⁷ This, therefore, I say, and testify in the Lord, that you walk no longer as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind; ¹⁸ having their understandings darkened; being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; ¹⁹ who, being past feeling, have abandoned themselves to lasciviousness, to commit all uncleanness with greediness.

¹⁴ that the blessing of Abraham might come on the nations through Christ Jesus; and that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

¹⁶ I have other sheep, besides, which are not of this fold. Them I must also bring; and they will obey my voice; and there shall be one flock, one shepherd.

²⁸ Therefore be it known to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they will hear it.

¹¹ where there is neither Greek nor Jew; circumcision nor uncircumcision; barbarian, Scythian; bond nor free; but Christ is all, and in all.

⁷ And after much debate, Peter rose up and said to them, Brethren, you know that, some considerable time since, God among us, chose, that the Gentiles, by my mouth, should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. ⁸ And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as he did to us: ⁹ and made no distinction between us and them, having purified their hearts by faith.