Acts 10:35

Good News For Gentiles

³⁴ Then Peter began. "I see, beyond all doubt," he said, "that 'God does not show partiality,' ³⁵ But that in every nation he who reverences him and does what is right is acceptable to him. ³⁶ God has sent his Message to the Israelites and told them, through Jesus Christ, the Good News of peace--and Jesus is Lord of all!

Works Righteousness

Does What Is Right

Acts 10:2

A religious man and one who reverenced God, with all his household. He was liberal in his charities to the people, and prayed to God constantly.

Acts 15:9

He made no distinction between them and us, when he purified their hearts by their faith.

Luke 1:28

Gabriel came into her presence and said: "Hail, you who have been highly favored! The Lord is with you."

Acts 9:31

And so it came about that the Church, throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria, enjoyed peace and became firmly established; and, ordering its life by reverence for the Lord and the help of the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.

Romans 2:13

It is not those who hear the words of a Law that are righteous before God, but it is those who obey it that will be pronounced righteous.

Romans 2:25-29

Circumcision has its value, if you are obeying the Law. But, if you are a breaker of the Law, your circumcision is no better than uncircumcision.

Romans 3:22

The Divine Righteousness which is bestowed, through faith in Jesus Christ, upon all, without distinction, who believe in him.

Romans 3:29-30

Or can it be that God is the God only of the Jews? Is not he also the God of the Gentiles?

Romans 10:12-13

For no distinction is made between the Jew and the Greek, for all have the same Lord, and he is bountiful to all who invoke him.

1 Corinthians 12:13

For it was by one Spirit that we were all baptized to form one Body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free men, and were all imbued with one Spirit.

2 Corinthians 7:1

With these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that pollutes either body or spirit, and, in deepest reverence for God, aim at perfect holiness.

Galatians 3:28

All distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and freeman, male and female, have vanished; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.

Ephesians 1:6

And so to enhance that glorious manifestation of his loving- kindness which he gave us in The Beloved;

Ephesians 2:13-18

But now, through your union with Christ Jesus, you who once were 'far off' have, by the shedding of the blood of the Christ, been brought 'near.'

Ephesians 3:6-8

That, by union with Christ Jesus and through the Good News, the Gentiles are co-heirs with us and members of one Body, and that they share with us in God's Promise.

Ephesians 5:21

And submit to one another from reverence for him.

Philippians 3:3

For it is we who are the circumcised--we whose worship is prompted by the Spirit of God, who exult in Christ Jesus, and who do not rely upon external privileges;

Colossians 1:6

Bearing fruit and growing, as it does, through all the world, just as it did among you, from the very day that you heard of God's loving-kindness, and understood what that loving-kindness really is.

Colossians 1:23-27

If only you remain true to your Faith, firm and immovable, never abandoning the hope held out in the Good News to which you listened, which has been proclaimed among all created things under Heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

Colossians 3:11

In that new life there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, freeman; but Christ is all!--and in all!

Hebrews 11:4-6

Faith made the sacrifice which Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain's, and won him renown as a righteous man, God himself establishing his renown by accepting his gifts; and it is by the example of his faith that Abel, though dead, still speaks.

1 John 2:29

Knowing him to be righteous, you realize that every one who lives righteously has received the new Life from him.