20 Bible Verses about Outsiders
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For here are the orders that the Lord has given us: 'I have made you a light to the heathen, To be the means of salvation to the very ends of the earth.'"
"So you must understand that this message of God's salvation has been sent to the heathen; and they will listen to it!"
I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall in utter ruin, did they? Of course not! On the contrary, because of their stumbling, salvation has come to heathen peoples, to make the Israelites jealous.
that the heathen through union with Christ Jesus are fellow-heirs with the Jews, are members with them of the same body, and sharers with them of the promise through the good news,
I have other sheep too that do not belong to this fold. I must lead them too, and they will listen to my voice, and all my sheep will become one flock with one shepherd.
For here are the orders that the Lord has given us: 'I have made you a light to the heathen, To be the means of salvation to the very ends of the earth.'" The heathen kept on listening and rejoicing and giving the glory to God's message, and all who had been destined to eternal life believed,
even us whom He has called, not only from among the Jews but from among the heathen too? Just as He says in Hosea: "I will call a people that was not mine, my people, and her who was not beloved, my beloved, And in the place where it was said, 'You are no people of mine,' they shall be called sons of the living God."
but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks alike, the Christ who is God's power and God's wisdom.
But the Lord stood by me and gave me strength, so that the message preached by me might have its full effect and all the heathen might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's jaws.
So the Samaritan woman said to Him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.
But a Samaritan, while on a journey, came down to him, and when he saw him, his heart was moved with pity for him.
and fell on his face at Jesus' feet, and continued to thank Him. Now he was a Samaritan.
A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."
Dearly beloved, I beg you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the evil desires of your lower nature, because they are always at war with the soul.
Practice living prudently in your relations with outsiders, making the most of your opportunities.
Then He said to them, "To you the secret of the kingdom of God has been entrusted, but to those who are on the outside everything is presented in stories, so that
For what right have I to judge outsiders? Is it not for you to judge those who are inside the church, but for God to judge those who are outside? You must expel that wicked person from your membership.
also keep up your ambition to live quietly, to practice attending to your own business and to work with your own hands, as we directed you, so that you may live influentially with the outsiders, and not be dependent on anybody.
He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, or else he may incur reproach and fall into the devil's trap.
