7 Bible Verses about First Among The Gentiles

Jesus sent out these 12 after giving them instructions: “Don’t take the road leading to other nations, and don’t enter any Samaritan town.

Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that in a case where they speak against you as those who do what is evil, they will, by observing your good works, glorify God on the day of visitation.

Simeon has reported how God first intervened to take from the Gentiles a people for His name.

and when he found him he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught large numbers. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.

And when they came to him, he said to them: “You know, from the first day I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time—

Greet also the church that meets in their home.
Greet my dear friend Epaenetus, who is the first convert to Christ from Asia.

For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we had not reached you, since we have come to you with the gospel of Christ.