Romans 10:20
Then Isaiah was bold enough to say: "I have been found by a people who were not searching for me; I have made known myself to people who were not asking to know me."
Romans 9:24-26
even us whom He has called, not only from among the Jews but from among the heathen too?
Ephesians 2:12-13
At that time you were without any connection with Christ; you were aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the sacred compacts made by God's promise, with no hope, and no God in the world.
John 1:29
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and he said, "Look! He is the Lamb of God who is to take away the world's sin.
Romans 9:30
What are we then to conclude? That heathen peoples who were not in search for right standing with God have obtained it, and that a right standing conditioned on faith;
1 Peter 2:10
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once His mercy had not been shown you, but now it has.