Acts 13:46

New English Translation

Both Paul and Barnabas replied courageously, “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.

Cross References

Proverbs 28:1

The wicked person flees when there is no one pursuing, but the righteous person is as confident as a lion.

Isaiah 55:5

Look, you will summon nations you did not previously know; nations that did not previously know you will run to you, because of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he bestows honor on you.

Ezekiel 2:5

And as for them, whether they listen or not – for they are a rebellious house – they will know that a prophet has been among them.

Matthew 10:6

Go instead to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Matthew 21:41

They said to him, “He will utterly destroy those evil men! Then he will lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his portion at the harvest.”

Matthew 21:43

For this reason I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.

Matthew 25:46

And these will depart into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Luke 24:47

and repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

John 1:11

He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.

John 4:22

You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.

Acts 13:14

Moving on from Perga, they arrived at Pisidian Antioch, and on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.

Acts 13:26

Brothers, descendants of Abraham’s family, and those Gentiles among you who fear God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.

Acts 13:5

When they arrived in Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. (Now they also had John as their assistant.)

Acts 19:9

But when some were stubborn and refused to believe, reviling the Way before the congregation, he left them and took the disciples with him, addressing them every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

Acts 22:21

Then he said to me, ‘Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”

Acts 26:20

but I declared to those in Damascus first, and then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds consistent with repentance.

Acts 28:28

“Therefore be advised that this salvation from God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen!”

Acts 3:26

God raised up his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each one of you from your iniquities.”

Acts 4:13

When they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and discovered that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed and recognized these men had been with Jesus.

Acts 7:51

“You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!

Acts 9:20

and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “This man is the Son of God.”

Romans 1:16

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Romans 2:10

but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and also the Greek.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.

Philippians 1:14

and most of the brothers and sisters, having confidence in the Lord because of my imprisonment, now more than ever dare to speak the word fearlessly.

Hebrews 11:34

quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, gained strength in weakness, became mighty in battle, put foreign armies to flight,