Acts 11:18

New Century Version

When the believers heard this, they stopped arguing. They praised God and said, “So God is allowing even other nations to turn to him and live.”

Cross References

Isaiah 11:10

At that time the new king from the family of Jesse will stand as a banner for all peoples. The nations will come together around him, and the place where he lives will be filled with glory.

Isaiah 60:21

All of your people will do what is right. They will receive the earth forever. They are the plant I have planted, the work of my own hands to show my greatness.

Isaiah 61:3

and to help the sorrowing people of Jerusalem. I will give them a crown to replace their ashes, and the oil of gladness to replace their sorrow, and clothes of praise to replace their spirit of sadness. Then they will be called Trees of Goodness, trees planted by the Lord to show his greatness.

Ezekiel 36:26

Also, I will teach you to respect me completely, and I will put a new way of thinking inside you. I will take out the stubborn hearts of stone from your bodies, and I will give you obedient hearts of flesh.

Ezekiel 47:22

You will divide it as family property for yourselves and for the foreigners who live and have children among you. You are to treat these foreigners the same as people born in Israel; they are to share the land with the tribes of Israel.

Zechariah 12:10

“I will pour out on David’s family and the people in Jerusalem a spirit of kindness and mercy. They will look at me, the one they have stabbed, and they will cry like someone crying over the death of an only child. They will be as sad as someone who has lost a firstborn son.

Matthew 9:8

When the people saw this, they were amazed and praised God for giving power like this to human beings.

Acts 11:1

The apostles and the believers in Judea heard that some who were not Jewish had accepted God’s teaching too.

Acts 14:27

When they arrived in Antioch, Paul and Barnabas gathered the church together. They told the church all about what God had done with them and how God had made it possible for those who were not Jewish to believe.

Acts 15:3

The church helped them leave on the trip, and they went through the countries of Phoenicia and Samaria, telling all about how the other nations had turned to God. This made all the believers very happy.

Acts 20:21

I warned both Jews and Greeks to change their lives and turn to God and believe in our Lord Jesus.

Acts 21:20

When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to Paul, “Brother, you can see that many thousands of our people have become believers. And they think it is very important to obey the law of Moses.

Acts 3:19

So you must change your hearts and lives! Come back to God, and he will forgive your sins. Then the Lord will send the time of rest.

Acts 3:26

God has raised up his servant Jesus and sent him to you first to bless you by turning each of you away from doing evil.”

Acts 5:31

Jesus is the One whom God raised to be on his right side, as Leader and Savior. Through him, all people could change their hearts and lives and have their sins forgiven.

Romans 9:30

So what does all this mean? Those who are not Jews were not trying to make themselves right with God, but they were made right with God because of their faith.

2 Corinthians 3:18

Our faces, then, are not covered. We all show the Lord’s glory, and we are being changed to be like him. This change in us brings ever greater glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 7:10

The kind of sorrow God wants makes people change their hearts and lives. This leads to salvation, and you cannot be sorry for that. But the kind of sorrow the world has brings death.

Galatians 1:24

And these believers praised God because of me.

Joshua 22:30

When Phinehas the priest and the ten leaders heard the people of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh, they were pleased.