7 Bible Verses about First Among The Gentiles

These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, "Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans,

Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name.

and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.

And when they came to him, he said to them: "You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia,

Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia.

For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you. For we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ.