Acts 15:14
Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.
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Acts 15:14
Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.
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Acts 15:15
This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,
Acts 15:16
‘After these things I will return. I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up
Acts 15:17
that the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.’
Acts 15:18
“All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.
Amos 9:11
In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old,
Amos 9:12
that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name,” says Yahweh who does this.
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2 Peter 1:1
Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
Acts 15:7
When 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.
Acts 15:8
God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
Acts 15:9
He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
Acts 15:10
Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Acts 15:11
But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”
Acts 15:12
All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.
Acts 15:13
After they were silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me.
Matthew 4:18
Walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
Luke 24:34
saying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!”
Acts 2:14
But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and spoke out to them, “You men of Judea and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
James 1:1
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.
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Luke 1:68
“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;
1 Peter 2:12
having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation.
Luke 1:78
because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,
Luke 19:44
and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”
Genesis 21:1
Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.
Exodus 3:16
Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.
Exodus 4:31
The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
Job 7:18
that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
Hebrews 2:6
But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?
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1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 Peter 2:10
In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Titus 2:14
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
Hebrews 8:10
“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the Lord: “I will put my laws into their mind; I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
Deuteronomy 14:2
For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 26:19
He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.
1 Samuel 12:22
For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.
Psalms 29:11
Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.
Psalms 78:52
But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
Psalms 100:3
Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Isaiah 43:21
the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.
Luke 1:17
He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”
2 Timothy 2:10
Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Revelation 21:3
I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people; and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
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Romans 1:5
through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;
Malachi 1:11
For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering; for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.
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John 10:16
I 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.
Ephesians 2:13
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 2:15
having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,
Ephesians 2:16
and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility through it.
Ephesians 2:17
He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.
Ephesians 2:18
For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
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