Quotes About Gentiles

“Go!” said the Lord. “This man is My chosen instrument to carry My name before the Gentiles and their kings, and before the people of Israel.

All the circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.

The apostles and brothers throughout Judea soon heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

When they heard this, their objections were put to rest, and they glorified God, saying, “So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.”

Paul stood up, motioned with his hand, and began to speak: “Men of Israel and you Gentiles who fear God, listen to me!

Brothers, children of Abraham, and you Gentiles who fear God, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.

Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.

For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ëI have made you a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.í”

When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

When they arrived, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

Sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, recounting the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy to all the brothers.

But some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and declared, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses.”

After much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you that the Gentiles would hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.

The whole assembly fell silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul describing the signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.

Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.

so that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by My name, says the Lord who does these things

It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not cause trouble for the Gentiles who are turning to God.

and sent them with this letter: The apostles and the elders, your brothers, To the brothers among the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings.

So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and God-fearing Gentiles, and in the marketplace with those he met each day.

But when they opposed and insulted him, he shook out his garments and told them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

Coming over to us, he took Paulís belt, bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ëIn this way the Jews of Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and hand him over to the Gentiles.í”

Paul greeted them and recounted one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

But they are under the impression that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or observe our customs.