Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and [that] they will hear it.
And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.
Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.
For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.
Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
We [who are] Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.
For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and [things] wherein [there is] no profit.
And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, [and] lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, [to] Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, [to] Tubal, and Javan, [to] the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use [them] despitefully, and to stone them,
That Christ should suffer, [and] that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
Delivering thee from the people, and [from] the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
Wherefore remember, that ye [being] in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify [him]: and the third day he shall rise again.
And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, [by] the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;
And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
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