Bible verses about "gentiles" | ACV

²² And having stood in the middle of the Areopagus, Paul said, Athenian men, I perceive you as deity-fearing in all things. ²³ For, passing through and examining your religious objects, I also found an altar on which had been engraved, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye worship unknowingly, him I proclaim to you. ²⁴ The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands, ²⁵ nor is he served by the hands of men, as needing anything, since he himself gives to all life, and breath, with all things. ²⁶ And he made from one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined prescribed times, and the limits of their occupancy, ²⁷ to search for the Lord, if indeed perhaps they might grope for him and find him, although being not far from each one of us.

³ For enough time of life has past for you to accomplish the will of the Gentiles, having gone in debaucheries, lusts, excesses of wine, revelings, drinking parties, and lawless idolatries.

⁶ Also the foreigners who join themselves to LORD, to minister to him, and to love the name of LORD, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant, ⁷ even them I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon my altar, for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples. ⁸ The lord LORD, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, Yet I will gather to him, besides his own who are gathered.

¹⁷ This I say therefore, and solemnly declare in the Lord, for you to walk no longer as also the other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, ¹⁸ darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the callousness of their heart. ¹⁹ Who, having become callous, gave themselves over to licentiousness for the work of all uncleanness in greed.

¹⁴ So that the blessing of Abraham might occur for the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through the faith.

²² And if God, wanting to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, ²³ even that he might make known the wealth of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he previously prepared for glory, ²⁴ namely us whom he called, not only from Jews but also from Gentiles. ²⁵ As also he says in Hosea, I will call those not my people, my people, and her who was not beloved, beloved. ²⁶ And it will be in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there they will be called, sons of the living God. ²⁷ And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved. ²⁸ Since he is completing and finishing quickly a matter in righteousness, because a matter that has been cut short upon the earth, the Lord will perform. ²⁹ And just as Isaiah has foretold, Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have become as Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah. ³⁰ What will we say then? That the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness from faith.

¹⁶ And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring those also, and they will hear my voice. And there will become one flock, one shepherd.

²⁸ Be it known to you therefore, that the salvation of God was sent to the Gentiles, and they will hear.

¹¹ where there is no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman, but the all and in all, Christ.

⁷ And when much debate occurred, Peter having risen up, he said to them, Men, brothers, ye know that from past days among us, God chose the Gentiles to hear through my mouth the word of the good news, and to believe. ⁸ And God, who knows the heart, testified to them, having given them the Holy Spirit, just as also to us. ⁹ And he made not one distinction between both us and them, having purified their hearts by faith.