Bible verses about "gentiles" | Anderson

²² Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars hill, and said: Men of Athens, I perceive that in all respects your reverence for demons excels that of other men. ²³ For as I was passing through, and looking attentively at the objects of your worship, I dis covered also an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore you ignorantly worship, him I make known to you. ²⁴ God, who made the world, and all things that are in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands; ²⁵ nor is he ministered to by the hands of men, as if he needed any thing: for he himself gives to all life, and breath, and all things: ²⁶ and he has made from one blood every nation of men, that they might dwell on all the face of the earth, having marked out their appointed times, and the bounds of their dwelling: ²⁷ that they might seek for God, if perhaps they would feel after him, and find him, although, indeed, he is not far from every one of us.

³ For the time past of our life should be enough for us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, while we walked in licentiousness, lusts, drunkenness, revelings, drinkings, and unlawful idolatries.

²² What, then, if God, intending to show his wrath, and to make his power known, yet, in much long-suffering bore with 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 before prepared for glory, showed mercy to us, ²⁴ whom he has called, not only from among the Jews, but also from the Gentiles? ²⁵ As he says also in Hosea: I will call that my people which is not my people, and her beloved, who was not beloved. ²⁶ And it shall come to pass, that, in the place where it was said to them: You are not my people, there shall they be called the sons of the living God. ²⁷ But Isaiah cries concerning Israel: Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: ²⁸ for his word he fulfills, and he decrees in righteousness; for his word that is decreed, will the Lord execute upon the land. ²⁹ And as Isaiah said before: Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a posterity, we should have been like Sodom, and been made like Gomorrah. ³⁰ What, then, shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not seek after justification, have obtained justification, even the justification which is by faith:

¹⁷ This I say, therefore, and appeal to you solemnly in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the other Gentiles walk, in the error of their minds, ¹⁸ darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; ¹⁹ who, being past feeling, have given themselves up to licentiousness, that they may work all manner of uncleanness with greediness.

¹⁴ in order that the blessing of Abraham may come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we may receive the promise of the Spirit through the faith.

¹⁶ And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold; those, also, must I bring, and they will hear 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.

¹¹ in which new creation there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all and in all.

⁷ And after there had been much disputing, Peter arose, and said to them: Brethren, you know that, at the beginning, God made choice among us, that, by my mouth, the Gentiles should hear the word of the Gospel, and believe. ⁸ And God, who knows the heart, became a witness for them, by giving them the Holy Spirit, as he gave it also to us; ⁹ and he made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.