'Behold! the Servant of my Choice, My Beloved, in whom my heart delights! I will breathe my spirit upon him, And he shall announce a time of judgment to the Gentiles.

Then Peter began. "I see, beyond all doubt," he said, "that 'God does not show partiality,'

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!

That so the rest of mankind may earnestly seek the Lord--even all the Gentiles on whom my Name has been bestowed."

Since I am choosing you out from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you,

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

Under what circumstances, then, did this take place? After his circumcision or before it?

And whom he called-even us-Not only from among the Jews but from among the Gentiles also!

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.

And that the Gentiles also may praise God for his mercy. As Scripture says--'Therefore will I make acknowledgment to thee among the Gentiles and sing in honor of thy Name.'

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.

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

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.

Circumcision

Circumcision is nothing; the want of it is nothing; but to keep the commands of God is everything.

If a man is in union with Christ Jesus, neither is circumcision nor the omission of it anything, but faith, working through love, is everything.

For neither is circumcision nor the omission of it anything; but a new nature is everything.

Barbarian

The natives showed us marked kindness, for they lit a fire and took us all under shelter, because it had come on to rain and was cold.

I have a duty to both the Greek and the Barbarian, to both the cultured and the ignorant.

If, however, I do not happen to know the language, I shall be a foreigner to those who speak it, and they will be foreigners to me.

Bond

Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let that trouble you. No, even if you are able to gain your freedom, still do your best.

For you know that every one will be rewarded by the Master for any honest work that he has done, whether he is a slave or a freeman.

And

He who takes my flesh for his food, and drinks my blood, remains united to me, and I to him.

"Whoever loves me," Jesus answered, " will lay my Message to heart; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.

I am the Vine, you are the branches. He that remains united to me, while I remain united to him--he bears fruit plentifully; for you can do nothing apart from me.

I in union with them and thou with me--that so they may be perfected in their union, and thus the world may know that thou hast sent me as thy Messenger, and that thou has loved them as thou hast loved me.

But, if Christ is within you, then, though the body is dead as a consequence of sin, the spirit is Life as a consequence of righteousness.

I have been crucified with Christ. So it is no longer I that live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and, as for my present earthly life, I am living it by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

For the Church is Christ's Body, and is filled by him who fills all things everywhere with his presence.

So that the Christ, through your faith, may make his home within your hearts in love; And I pray that you, now firmly rooted and established, may, with all Christ's People,

We realize, too, that the Son of God has come among us, and has given us the discernment to know the True God; and we are in union with the True God by our union with his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the True God and he is Immortal Life.

General references

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

For it pleased the Father that in him the divine nature in all its fulness should dwell,