Matthew 15:24-26
15:24 So
he answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
15:25 But she came and bowed down
before him and said,
“Lord, help me!”
15:26 “It is not right
to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs,”
he said.
Luke 24:47
24:47 and repentance
for the forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed
in his name to all nations,
beginning from Jerusalem.
Acts 3:26
3:26 God raised up
his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning
each one of you from your iniquities.”
Acts 13:46
13:46 Both Paul and Barnabas replied courageously,
“It was necessary to speak the word of God
to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy
of eternal life, we
are turning to the Gentiles.
Acts 18:6
18:6 When they opposed him
and reviled him,
he protested by shaking out his clothes
and said to them, “Your blood
be on your own heads! I am guiltless!
From now on I will go to the Gentiles!”
Acts 26:20
26:20 but I declared to those in Damascus first, and then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea,
and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God,
performing deeds consistent with
repentance.
Acts 28:25-28
28:25 So they began to leave,
unable to agree among themselves, after Paul made one last statement: “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly to your ancestors
through the prophet Isaiah
28:26 when he said,
‘Go to this people and say,
“You will keep on hearing, but will never understand,
and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive.
28:27 For the heart of this people has become dull,
and their ears are hard of hearing,
and they have closed their eyes,
so that they would not see with their eyes
and hear with their ears
and understand with their heart
and turn, and I would heal them.”’
28:28 “Therefore be advised that this salvation from God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen!”
Romans 11:11-15
11:11 I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall, did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous.
11:12 Now if their transgression means riches for the world and their defeat means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full restoration bring?
11:13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
11:14 if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.
11:15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?