Bible Verses about โgentilesโ
The Bible contains 23 verses about gentiles across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โbeing darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;โ
โwhere there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.โ
โwho having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.โ
โThis I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,โ
โI have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.โ
โIsaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;โ
โWhat if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,โ
โeven them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples."โ
โand that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,โ
โthat the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.โ
โThe Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, "Yet will I gather [others] to him, besides his own who are gathered."โ
โyes, he says, "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth."โ
โHe made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.โ
โ"Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations. They will also listen."โ
โAlso the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh, to minister to him, and to love the name of Yahweh, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant;โ
โfor He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth."โ
โWhen there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News, and believe.โ
โGod, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.โ
โus, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?โ
โAs he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."โ
โ"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"โ
โAs Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah."โ
โWhat shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;โ
