7 Bible Verses about First Among The Gentiles

These twelve Jesus sent, having announced to them, saying, Go not in the way of the nations, and into the city of the Samaritans enter ye not.

Having your turning back good in the nations: that, in what they speak against you as doing evil, from good works, they having beheld, might praise God in the day of inspection.

Simeon related how God first reviewed to take from the nations a people for his name.

And having found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it was for a whole year they were assembled together in the churches, and taught a sufficient crowd. And the disciples were Christians by divine intimation first in Antioch.

And when they came to him, he said to them, Ye know, from the first day in which I embarked for Asia, how I was with you all the time

And the church in their house. Embrace my beloved Epenetus, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Christ.

For not as reaching to you we stretch beyond ourselves: for also even to you we came before in the good news of Christ: