Romans 1:14
I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.
--------------------
Romans 1:14
I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.
--------------------
Genesis 43:32
They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians don’t eat with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
Numbers 11:28
Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord Moses, forbid them!”
Judges 12:6
then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’ ” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it correctly, then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.
Matthew 21:15
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant,
Mark 6:3
Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” So they were offended at him.
Mark 9:38
John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone who doesn’t follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow us.”
Mark 10:13
They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them.
Luke 4:24
He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.
Luke 9:53
They didn’t receive him, because he was traveling with his face set toward Jerusalem.
Luke 19:7
When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”
John 1:46
Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
John 4:9
The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
John 7:52
They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”
Acts 10:28
He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.
-----
Leviticus 19:18
“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
Hebrews 13:2
Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
-----
Leviticus 19:34
The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
Hebrews 13:1
Let brotherly love continue.
-----
Proverbs 1:21
She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:
Proverbs 8:5
You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!
-----
Proverbs 1:22
“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
-----
Acts 2:10
Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
Acts 18:2
He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,
Acts 23:11
The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”
Acts 28:16
When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.
Romans 15:22
Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,
Romans 15:23
but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,
Romans 15:24
whenever I travel to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.
Romans 15:25
But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.
Romans 15:26
For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem.
Romans 15:28
When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.
Revelation 17:9
Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.
Revelation 17:18
The woman whom you saw is the great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.”
-----
Jeremiah 1:17
“You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and say to them all that I command you. Don’t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.
Jeremiah 20:7
Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.
Jeremiah 20:9
If I say that I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.
Amos 3:8
The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?
Amos 7:15
and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
Acts 4:20
for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”
Romans 13:7
Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
-----
John 7:35
The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?
Acts 13:2
As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”
Acts 13:3
Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
Acts 13:4
So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus.
Acts 14:1
In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.
Acts 16:32
They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.
Acts 17:4
Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas: of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.
Acts 19:10
This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
Acts 19:17
This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
Acts 21:28
crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place!”
-----
Acts 20:18
When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,
Acts 20:20
how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
Acts 20:34
You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.
Acts 20:35
In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
-----
Isaiah 35:8
A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.
Matthew 11:25
At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
Luke 10:21
In that same hour, Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”
John 7:49
But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”
Acts 26:11
Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
Romans 12:16
Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.
1 Corinthians 1:27
but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.
1 Corinthians 1:28
God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
James 3:18
Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
-----
Psalms 40:9
I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
Mark 8:38
For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
Acts 9:6
But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”
Acts 26:16
But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will reveal to you;
Acts 26:19
“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
Acts 26:20
but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
Acts 27:3
The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.
Galatians 1:16
to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,
Ephesians 3:8
To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
Colossians 1:26
the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,
1 Thessalonians 2:4
But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak—not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
2 Timothy 1:12
For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
-----
Romans 1:1
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,
Romans 1:2
which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,
Romans 1:3
concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh,
Romans 1:4
who was declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
-----
Romans 4:3
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
Romans 4:16
For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
Romans 4:17
As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
Romans 4:18
Against hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”
Romans 4:23
Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,
Romans 4:24
but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
Romans 4:25
who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
Romans 5:16
The gift is not as through one who sinned; for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift followed many trespasses to justification.
-----
Romans 9:25
As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”
Romans 9:26
“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ”
Romans 10:18
But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”
Romans 10:20
Isaiah is very bold and says, “I was found by those who didn’t seek me. I was revealed to those who didn’t ask for me.”
-----
Acts 17:21
Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
Romans 11:25
For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
1 Corinthians 1:21
For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
1 Corinthians 1:26
For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;
1 Corinthians 1:31
that, as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”
1 Corinthians 2:13
We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
2 Corinthians 10:12
For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
2 Corinthians 11:19
For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
-----
Romans 12:5
so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,
-----
Matthew 18:4
Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Matthew 20:26
It shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.
Matthew 20:28
even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Mark 9:33
He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?”
Mark 9:34
But they were silent, for they had disputed with one another on the way about who was the greatest.
Mark 9:35
He sat down and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”
Luke 22:26
But not so with you. Rather, the one who is greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves.
John 13:14
If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
John 13:15
For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you.
Romans 15:2
Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.
1 Corinthians 10:33
even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
Galatians 5:13
For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom an an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
-----
1 Corinthians 14:16
Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn’t know what you say?
1 Corinthians 14:18
I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.
1 Corinthians 14:21
In the law it is written, “By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. They won’t even listen to me that way, says the Lord.”
1 Corinthians 14:23
If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy?
1 Corinthians 14:24
But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.
-----
2 Corinthians 11:5
For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.
2 Corinthians 11:24
Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.
2 Corinthians 11:25
Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
2 Corinthians 11:26
I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
2 Corinthians 11:28
Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.
-----
Ephesians 5:15
Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
Ephesians 5:16
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Ephesians 5:17
Therefore, don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
-----
1 Corinthians 1:3
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 1:2
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 13:14
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.
Ephesians 1:2
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1:2
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Colossians 1:2
to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 1:1
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 1:2
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 John 1:3
Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
-----
Matthew 15:21
Jesus went out from there and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.
Romans 11:13
For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,
Romans 15:17
I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.
Romans 15:18
For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
Romans 15:20
yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.
1 Corinthians 9:18
What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
2 Corinthians 12:15
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
Galatians 1:1
Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—
Ephesians 3:1
For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,
Colossians 1:27
to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Colossians 2:1
For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
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.
-----
1 Timothy 1:11
according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
-----
Luke 21:14
Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer,
Acts 22:1
“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you.”
Acts 26:1
Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.
Acts 26:24
As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”
Philippians 1:7
It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.
Philippians 1:17
but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.
2 Timothy 4:6
For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4:16
At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.
2 Timothy 4:17
But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Public Domain