'Nations' in the Bible

Land of Zabulon and land of Nepthalim, way of the sea beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as those who are of the nations: for they think they shall be heard through their much speaking.

for all these things the nations seek after; for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these things.

These twelve Jesus sent out when he had charged them, saying, Go not off into the way of the nations, and into a city of Samaritans enter ye not;

and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

Behold my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved, in whom my soul has found its delight. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he shall shew forth judgment to the nations.

and on his name shall the nations hope.

But if he will not listen to them, tell it to the assembly; and if also he will not listen to the assembly, let him be to thee as one of the nations and a tax-gatherer.

and they will deliver him up to the nations to mock and to scourge and to crucify, and the third day he shall rise again.

But Jesus having called them to him, said, Ye know that the rulers of the nations exercise lordship over them, and the great exercise authority over them.

Then shall they deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you; and ye will be hated of all the nations for my name's sake.

And these glad tidings of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole habitable earth, for a witness to all the nations, and then shall come the end.

and all the nations shall be gathered before him; and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptising them to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit;

Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be delivered up to the chief priests and to the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him up to the nations:

But Jesus having called them to him, says to them, Ye know that those who are esteemed to rule over the nations exercise lordship over them; and their great men exercise authority over them;

And he taught saying to them, Is it not written, My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? but ye have made it a den of robbers.

and the gospel must first be preached to all the nations.

for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that ye have need of these things;

for he shall be delivered up to the nations, and shall be mocked, and insulted, and spit upon.

And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the nations until the times of the nations be fulfilled.

And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth distress of nations in perplexity at the roar of the sea and rolling waves,

And he said to them, The kings of the nations rule over them, and they that exercise authority over them are called benefactors.

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations beginning at Jerusalem.

who hast said by the mouth of thy servant David, Why have the nations raged haughtily and the peoples meditated vain things?

For in truth against thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou hadst anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations, and peoples of Israel, have been gathered together in this city

which also our fathers, receiving from their predecessors, brought in with Joshua when they entered into possession of the lands of the nations, whom God drove out from the face of our fathers, until the days of David;

And the Lord said to him, Go, for this man is an elect vessel to me, to bear my name before both nations and kings and the sons of Israel:

And the faithful of the circumcision were astonished, as many as came with Peter, that upon the nations also the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out:

And the apostles and the brethren who were in Judaea heard that the nations also had received the word of God;

And when they heard these things they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then indeed God has to the nations also granted repentance to life.

And having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.

And Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly and said, It was necessary that the word of God should be first spoken to you; but, since ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the nations;

for thus has the Lord enjoined us: I have set thee for a light of the nations, that thou shouldest be for salvation to the end of the earth.

And those of the nations, hearing it, rejoiced, and glorified the word of the Lord, and believed, as many as were ordained to eternal life.

But the Jews who did not believe stirred up the minds of those of the nations and made them evil-affected against the brethren.

And when an assault was making, both of those of the nations and the Jews with their rulers, to use them ill and stone them,

who in the past generations suffered all the nations to go in their own ways,

And having arrived, and having brought together the assembly, they related to them all that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

They therefore, having been set on their way by the assembly, passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, relating the conversion of those of the nations. And they caused great joy to all the brethren.

And much discussion having taken place, Peter, standing up, said to them, Brethren, ye know that from the earliest days God amongst you chose that the nations by my mouth should hear the word of the glad tidings and believe.

And all the multitude kept silence and listened to Barnabas and Paul relating all the signs and wonders which God had wrought among the nations by them.

Simon has related how God first visited to take out of the nations a people for his name.

so that the residue of men may seek out the Lord, and all the nations on whom my name is invoked, saith the Lord, who does these things

Wherefore I judge, not to trouble those who from the nations turn to God;

having by their hand written thus: The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to the brethren who are from among the nations at Antioch, and in Syria and Cilicia, greeting:

But as they opposed and spoke injuriously, he shook his clothes, and said to them, Your blood be upon your own head: I am pure; from henceforth I will go to the nations.

And having saluted them, he related one by one the things which God had wrought among the nations by his ministry.

And they have been informed concerning thee, that thou teachest all the Jews among the nations apostasy from Moses, saying that they should not circumcise their children, nor walk in the customs.

But concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, deciding that they should observe no such thing, only to keep themselves both from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication.

And he said to me, Go, for I will send thee to the nations afar off.

taking thee out from among the people, and the nations, to whom I send thee,

but have, first to those both in Damascus and Jerusalem, and to all the region of Judaea, and to the nations, announced that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

namely, whether Christ should suffer; whether he first, through resurrection of the dead, should announce light both to the people and to the nations.

Be it known to you therefore, that this salvation of God has been sent to the nations; they also will hear it.

by whom we have received grace and apostleship in behalf of his name, for obedience of faith among all the nations,

But I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that I often proposed to come to you, (and have been hindered until the present time,) that I might have some fruit among you too, even as among the other nations also.

For when those of the nations, which have no law, practise by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;

For the name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations, according as it is written.

Is God the God of Jews only? is he not of the nations also? Yea, of nations also:

(according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;

who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be:

us, whom he has also called, not only from amongst the Jews, but also from amongst the nations?

What then shall we say? That they of the nations, who did not follow after righteousness, have attained righteousness, but the righteousness that is on the principle of faith.

I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall there is salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy.

But if their fall be the world's wealth, and their loss the wealth of the nations, how much rather their fulness?

For I speak to you, the nations, inasmuch as I am apostle of nations, I glorify my ministry;

For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, that ye may not be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the nations be come in;

and that the nations should glorify God for mercy; according as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the nations, and will sing to thy name.

And again he says, Rejoice, nations, with his people.

And again, Praise the Lord, all ye nations, and let all the peoples laud him.

And again, Esaias says, There shall be the root of Jesse, and one that arises, to rule over the nations: in him shall the nations hope.

for me to be minister of Christ Jesus to the nations, carrying on as a sacrificial service the message of glad tidings of God, in order that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which Christ has not wrought by me, for the obedience of the nations, by word and deed,

They have been well pleased indeed, and they are their debtors; for if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also in fleshly to minister to them.

(who for my life staked their own neck; to whom not I only am thankful, but also all the assemblies of the nations,)

but which has now been made manifest, and by prophetic scriptures, according to commandment of the eternal God, made known for obedience of faith to all the nations --

but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews an offence, and to nations foolishness;

It is universally reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.

But that what the nations sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. Now I do not wish you to be in communion with demons.

Ye know that when ye were of the nations ye were led away to dumb idols, in whatever way ye might be led.

in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the nations, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren;

was pleased to reveal his Son in me, that I may announce him as glad tidings among the nations, immediately I took not counsel with flesh and blood,

and I went up according to revelation, and I laid before them the glad tidings which I preach among the nations, but privately to those conspicuous among them, lest in any way I run or had run in vain;

and recognising the grace given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were conspicuous as being pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that we should go to the nations, and they to the circumcision;

for before that certain came from James, he ate with those of the nations; but when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those of the circumcision;

But when I saw that they do not walk straightforwardly, according to the truth of the glad tidings, I said to Peter before all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as the nations and not as the Jews, how dost thou compel the nations to Judaize?

We, Jews by nature, and not sinners of the nations,

and the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the nations on the principle of faith, announced beforehand the glad tidings to Abraham: In thee all the nations shall be blessed.

that the blessing of Abraham might come to the nations in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Wherefore remember that ye, once nations in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in the flesh done with the hand;

For this reason I Paul, prisoner of the Christ Jesus for you nations,

that they who are of the nations should be joint heirs, and a joint body, and joint partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus by the glad tidings;

To me, less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, to announce among the nations the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of the Christ,

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye should no longer walk as the rest of the nations walk in the vanity of their mind,

to whom God would make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you the hope of glory:

forbidding us to speak to the nations that they may be saved, that they may fill up their sins always: but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)

to which I have been appointed a herald and apostle, (I speak the truth, I do not lie,) a teacher of the nations in faith and truth.

And confessedly the mystery of piety is great. God has been manifested in flesh, has been justified in the Spirit, has appeared to angels, has been preached among the nations, has been believed on in the world, has been received up in glory.