Bible verses about "gentiles" | Tyndale

²² Paul stode in the myddes of Marse strete and sayde: ye men of Attens I perceave that in all thinges ye are to supersticious. ²³ For as I passed by and behelde the maner how ye worship youre goddes I founde an aultre wher in was written: vnto ye vnknowen god. Whom ye then ignoratly worship him shewe I vnto you. ²⁴ God that made the worlde and all that are in it seynge that he is Lorde of heven and erth he dwelleth not in temples made with hondes ²⁵ nether is worshipped with mennes hondes as though he neded of eny thinge seinge he him selfe geveth lyfe and breeth to all men every where ²⁶ and hath made of one bloud all nacions of men for to dwell on all the face of the erthe and hath assigned before how longe tyme and also the endes of their inhabitacion ²⁷ that they shuld seke God yf they myght fele and fynde him though he be not farre from every one of vs.

³ For it is sufficient for vs that we have spent the tyme that is past of the lyfe after the will of the gentyls walkinge in wantannes lustes dronkennes in eatinge drinkinge and in abominable ydolatrie.

²² Even so God willynge to shewe his wrath and to make his power knowen suffered with longe pacience the vessels of wrath ordeyned to damnacion ²³ that he myght declare ye ryches of his glory on the vessels of mercye which he had prepayred vnto glorie: ²⁴ that is to saye vs which he called not of the Iewes only but also of ye gentyls. ²⁵ As he sayth in Osee: I will call them my people which were not my people: and her beloved which was not beloved. ²⁶ And it shall come to passe in the place where it was sayd vnto them ye are not my people: that there shalbe called the chyldren of the lyvynge God. ²⁷ But Esaias cryeth concernynge Israel though the nomber of the chyldren of Israel be as the sonde of the see yet shall a remnaut be saved. ²⁸ He finyssheth the worde verely and maketh it short in ryghtwesses. For a short worde will god make on erth. ²⁹ And as Esaias sayd before: Except the Lorde of sabaoth had left us seede we had bene made as Zodoma and had bene lykened to Gomorra. ³⁰ What shall we saye then? We saye that the gentyls which followed not rightewesnes have overtaken rightewesnes: I meane the rightewesnes which cometh of fayth.

¹⁷ This I saye therfore and testifie in ye lorde that ye hence forth walke not as other gentyls walke in vanitie of their mynde ¹⁸ blynded in their vnderstondynge beynge straungers from the lyfe which is in god thorow the ignorancy that is in them because of the blyndnes of their hertes: ¹⁹ which beynge past repentaunce have geven them selves vnto wantannes to worke all manner of vnclennes even with gredynes.

¹⁴ that the blessynge of Abraham might come on the getyls thorow Iesus Christ and that we might receave the promes of the sprete thorow fayth.

¹⁶ and other shepe I have which are not of this folde. Them also must I bringe that they maye heare my voyce and that ther maye be one flocke and one shepeherde.

²⁸ Be it knowen therfore vnto you that this salvacion of God is sent to the gentyls and they shall heare it.

¹¹ where is nether gentile ner Iewe circumcision nor vncircumcision Barbarous or Sithian bonde or fre: but Christe is all in all thynges.

⁷ And when ther was moche disputinge Peter rose vp and sayde vnto them: Ye men and brethren ye knowe how that a good whyle agoo God chose amoge vs that the getyls by my mouth shuld heare the worde of the gospell and beleve. ⁸ And God which knoweth the herte bare them witnes and gave vnto them the holy goost eve as he dyd vnto vs ⁹ and he put no difference bitwene them and vs but with fayth purified their hertes.