Acts 18:6

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Summary

And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

He shook

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Acts 20:26

1 Timothy 5:22

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Mark 8:13

Acts 28:24

Bible References

He shook

They, however, shook the dust off their feet in protest,

If no one welcomes you, or listens to what you say, as you leave that house or that town, shake off its dust from your feet.

If people do not welcome you, as you leave that town, shake even the dust off your feet, as a protest against them."

But, whatever town you go to visit, if the people do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say

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Therefore I declare to you this day, that my conscience is clear in regard to the fate of any of you,

Never ordain any one hastily, and take no part in the wrong-doing of others. Keep your life pure.

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Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly, and said: "It was necessary that the Message of God should be told to you first; but, since you reject it and reckon yourselves not worthy of the Immortal Life--we turn to the Gentiles!

Some of them, however, hardened their hears and refused to believe, denouncing the Cause before the people. So Paul left them and withdrew his disciples, and gave daily addresses in the lecture-hall of Tyrannus.

On the contrary, first to those at Damascus and Jerusalem, and then through the whole of Judea, and to the Gentiles as well, I began to preach repentance and conversion to God, and a life befitting that repentance.

Understand, then, that this Salvation of God was sent for the Gentiles; and they will listen."

Yes, and many will come in from East and West and take their places beside Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the Kingdom of Heaven;

And that, I tell you, is why the Kingdom of God will be taken from you, and given to a nation that does produce the fruit of the Kingdom.

The servants went out into the roads and collected all the people whom they found, whether bad or good; and the bridal-hall was filled with guests.

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

This, indeed, is what he says in the Book of Hosea-'I will call those my People who were not my People, and her my beloved who was not beloved.

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.

I ask then--'Was their stumbling to result in their fall?' Heaven forbid! On the contrary, through their falling away Salvation has reached the Gentiles, to stir the rivalry of Israel.

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So he left them to themselves, and, getting into the boat again, went away to the opposite shore.

Some were inclined to accept what he said; others, however, rejected it.