Quotes About Nations

Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ëMy house will be called a house of prayer for all the nationsí? But you have made it ëa den of robbers.í”

And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all the nations.

Then He told them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.

and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.

Parthians, Medes, and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ëWhy do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,

And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.

In past generations, He let all nations go their own way.

From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”

but now revealed and made known through the writings of the prophets by the command of the eternal God, in order to lead all nations to the obedience that comes from faith—

The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”

By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, was taken up in glory.

And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations.

And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.

And they told me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.”

But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.

For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb.