After several years I came to bring to my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings,

For just as it is written, “the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

And again it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people.”

but we preach about a crucified Christ, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles –

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.

They will bring the grandeur and the wealth of the nations into it,

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. I serve the gospel of God like a priest, so that the Gentiles may become an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

For all the nations of the world pursue these things, and your Father knows that you need them.

and repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

and not for the Jewish nation only, but to gather together into one the children of God who are scattered.)

Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven residing in Jerusalem.

but in every nation the person who fears him and does what is right is welcomed before him.

But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

When both the Gentiles and the Jews (together with their rulers) made an attempt to mistreat them and stone them,

In past generations he allowed all the nations to go their own ways,

Simeon has explained how God first concerned himself to select from among the Gentiles a people for his name.

“Therefore I conclude that we should not cause extra difficulty for those among the Gentiles who are turning to God,

I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you