Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,
Parallel translations
- WEB Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
- KJV Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
- NKJV Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also,
- NASB Or is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
- NLT After all, is God the God of the Jews only? Isn’t he also the God of the Gentiles? Of course he is.
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Quick answer
God is the God of Gentiles as well as Jews. His salvation reaches all peoples.
Overview
Paul presses the implication of justification by faith: if works of the Mosaic law saved, only Jews could be saved. But since God is the one God of all nations, his way of salvation must be open to everyone. This affirms the universal scope of the gospel and the unity of all believers in Christ.
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Cross-references · 30
- Col 3:11Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.
- Eph 3:6This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.
- Zech 2:11“On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you.
- Rom 9:24–26including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?
- Gal 3:25–29Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.
- Gal 3:14He redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.
- Zech 8:20–23This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Peoples will yet come—the residents of many cities—
- Rom 10:12For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,
- Rom 15:9–13so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: “Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles; I will sing hymns to Your name.”
- Rom 15:16to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
- Rom 1:16I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.
- Mark 16:15–16And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
- Luke 24:46–47And He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
- Jer 16:19O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.
- Gen 17:18And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!”
- Mal 1:11For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Matt 28:19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
- Acts 26:17I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them
- Hos 1:10Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
- Isa 54:5For your husband is your Maker—the LORD of Hosts is His name—the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.
- Matt 22:32‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
- Ps 22:7All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:
- Acts 9:15“Go!” said the Lord. “This man is My chosen instrument to carry My name before the Gentiles and their kings, and before the people of Israel.
- Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- Gen 17:7–8I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
- Acts 22:21Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
- Rom 11:12–13But if their trespass means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring!
- Isa 19:23–25In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt, and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together.
- Ps 72:17May his name endure forever; may his name continue as long as the sun shines. In him may all nations be blessed; may they call him blessed.
- Ps 67:2that Your ways may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations.
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