Bible Verses About Gentiles And The People Of God

And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.

Direct scriptural passage about Gentiles rejoicing with his people

Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

Direct Bible text stating God is God of Gentiles also

For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

Gentiles do the things of the law by nature

That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

Direct statement of one body and shared promise

And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.

Prophecy that many nations will be called my people

Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

Direct Bible text behind the teaching

And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?

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And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

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Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

Romans 9:24 supports the same inclusion

For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

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For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

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Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

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And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.

Gentiles glorify God for mercy among his people

And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

Old covenant holy nation background used by later writers

Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

Not a people, now people of God

Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.

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I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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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;

Gentiles once uncircumcised, now brought near

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.

Late prophecy of nations joining the Lord

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.

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And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.

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At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

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And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

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Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

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And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

Shows Gentiles believing when they hear the gospel

As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.

Hos ea citation used for Gentiles becoming God’s people

But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.

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Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.

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As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

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My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

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Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

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And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

Shows the church hearing that Gentiles received the word

And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.

Peter’s words at Jerusalem about Gentiles hearing and believing