20 Bible Verses about Outsiders
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For thus has the Lord given us commandment: I have placed thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be for salvation to the most distant part of the earth.
Therefore, be it known to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they will hear.
I say, then, Have they stumbled, in order that they may fall? It can not be. But rather, through their fall, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to excite them to jealousy.
that the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in the Christ, through the gospel,
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold; those, also, must I bring, and they will hear my voice: and there shall be one flock, one shepherd.
For thus has the Lord given us commandment: I have placed thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be for salvation to the most distant part of the earth. When the Gentiles heard this they rejoiced, and glorified the word of the Lord; and as many as were determined to obtain eternal life, believed.
whom he has called, not only from among the Jews, but also from the Gentiles? As he says also in Hosea: I will call that my people which is not my people, and her beloved, who was not beloved. And it shall come to pass, that, in the place where it was said to them: You are not my people, there shall they be called the sons of the living God.
but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
but the Lord stood by me, and gave me strength, that through me that which is preached might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Then the woman of Samaria said to him: How is it that you, who are a Jew, ask drink of me, who am a woman of Samaria? (For the Jews have no social intercourse with the Samaritans.)
But a certain Samaritan, who was on a journey, came near him; and when he saw him, he had compassion on him.
And he fell on his face at his feet, and gave him thanks; and he was a Samaritan.
There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. And Jesus said to her: Give me to drink.
Beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and sojourners, that you keep yourselves from fleshly desires, which war against the soul,
And he said to them: To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are without, all things are done in parables;
For what right have I to judge those who are without? Do you not judge those who are within? But God will judge those who are without. So then judge, and put away that wicked man from among you.
and that you earnestly endeavor to live quietly, and that you attend to your own business, and work with your own hands, as we commanded you; in order that you may walk with propriety toward those who are without, and may have need of nothing.
Further, he must have a good reputation from those who are without, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
