Acts 15:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.”
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“Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Symeon hath rehearsed how first God visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Simeon did declare how at first God did look after to take out of the nations a people for His name,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Acts 15:14 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 43:21The people I formed for Myself will declare My praise.
- Isaiah 55:11so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
- Luke 1:68“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed His people.
- Luke 1:78because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the Dawn will visit us from on high,
- Luke 2:31which You have prepared in the sight of all people,
- Acts 15:7After much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you that the Gentiles would hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.
- Romans 1:5Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.
- Romans 11:36For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.
- 1 Peter 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
- 2 Peter 1:1Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:
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