Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
Parallel translations
- WEB Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
- BSB Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,
- 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 3:11Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
- Eph 3:6That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
- Zech 2:11And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.
- Rom 9:24–26Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
- Gal 3:25–29But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
- Gal 3:14That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
- Zech 8:20–23Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:
- Rom 10:12For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
- Rom 15:9–13And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.
- Rom 15:16That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
- Rom 1:16For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
- Mark 16:15–16And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
- Luke 24:46–47And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
- Jer 16:19O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
- Gen 17:18And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!
- Mal 1:11For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
- Matt 28:19Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
- Acts 26:17Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
- Hos 1:10Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
- Isa 54:5For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
- Matt 22:32I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
- Ps 22:7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
- Acts 9:15But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
- Jer 31:33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
- Gen 17:7–8And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
- Acts 22:21And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
- Rom 11:12–13Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
- Isa 19:23–25In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
- Ps 72:17His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
- Ps 67:2That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
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