7 Bible Verses about First Among The Gentiles

These twelve Jesus sent out when he had charged them, saying, Go not off into the way of the nations, and into a city of Samaritans enter ye not;

having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that as to that in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may through your good works, themselves witnessing them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Simon has related how God first visited to take out of the nations a people for his name.

And having found him, he brought him to Antioch. And so it was with them that for a whole year they were gathered together in the assembly and taught a large crowd: and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

And when they were come to him, he said to them, Ye know how I was with you all the time from the first day that I arrived in Asia,

and the assembly at their house. Salute Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first-fruits of Asia for Christ.

For we do not, as not reaching to you, overstretch ourselves, (for we have come to you also in the glad tidings of the Christ;)