Acts 10:45
10:45 The
circumcised believers
who had accompanied Peter were greatly astonished
that
the gift of the Holy Spirit
had been poured out
even on the Gentiles,
Acts 11:15-18
11:15 Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on
them just as he did
on us at the beginning.
11:16 And I remembered the word of the Lord,
as he used to say,
‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’
11:17 Therefore if God
gave them the same gift
as he also gave us after believing
in the Lord Jesus Christ,
who was I to hinder
God?”
11:18 When they heard this,
they ceased their objections
and praised
God, saying, “So then, God has granted the repentance
that leads to life even to the Gentiles.”
Acts 14:27
14:27 When they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported
all the things God
had done with them, and that he had opened a door
of faith for the Gentiles.
Acts 15:3
15:3 So they were sent on their way by the church, and as they passed through both Phoenicia
and Samaria, they were relating at length
the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy
to all the brothers.
Acts 15:8
15:8 And God, who knows the heart,
has testified
to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,
Acts 15:14
15:14 Simeon
has explained
how God first concerned himself
to select
from among the Gentiles
a people for his name.
Isaiah 59:19
59:19 In the west, people respect the Lord’s reputation;
in the east they recognize his splendor.
For he comes like a rushing stream
driven on by wind sent from the Lord.
Ephesians 2:13-22
2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
2:14 For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one
and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility,
2:15 when he nullified
in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man
out of two,
thus making peace,
2:16 and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed.
2:17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near,
2:18 so that
through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
2:19 So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
2:20 because you have been built
on the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
with Christ Jesus himself as
the cornerstone.
2:21 In him
the whole building,
being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
2:22 in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
Ephesians 3:5-8
3:5 Now this secret
was not disclosed to people
in former
generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by
the Spirit,
3:6 namely, that through the gospel
the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members
of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.
3:7 I became a servant of this gospel
according to the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by
the exercise of his power.
3:8 To me – less than the least of all the saints
– this grace was given,
to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ