7 Bible Verses about First Among The Gentiles

Jesus sent these twelve out, after giving them these directions: "Do not go among the heathen, or to any Samaritan town,

Live upright lives among the heathen, so that even if they charge you with being evil-doers, they may from observing the uprightness of your conduct come to praise God on the Day of Judgment.

Symeon has told how God first showed an interest in taking from among the heathen a people to bear his name.

and found him and brought him to Antioch. The result was that for a whole year they met with the church, and taught large numbers of people, and it was at Antioch that the disciples first came to be known as Christians.

When they came, he said to them, "You know well enough how I lived among you all the time from the first day I set foot in Asia,

Remember me to my dear Epaenetus, who was the first man in Asia to turn to Christ.

It is no strain for me to do this, as it might be for people who had never got so far, for I was the first to come all the way to you with the good news of the Christ.