Acts 10:35

Good News For Gentiles

³⁴ Then Peter began and said, "Now I really understand that God shows no partiality, ³⁵ but welcomes the man of any nation who reveres him and does what is right. ³⁶ He has sent his message to Israel's descendants, and made the good news of peace known to them through Jesus Christ. He is Lord of us all.

Works Righteousness

Does What Is Right

Acts 10:2

He was a devout man, who feared God, as did all the members of his household. He was liberal in charities to the people, and always prayed to God.

Acts 15:9

making no difference between us and them, but cleansing their hearts by faith.

Luke 1:28

And the angel went into the town and said to her, "Good morning, favored woman! The Lord be with you!"

Acts 9:31

So the church all over Judea, Galilee, and Samaria was at peace and became established. It lived in reverence for the Lord and, stimulated by the holy Spirit, it grew steadily in numbers.

Romans 2:13

For merely hearing the Law read does not make a man upright in the sight of God; men must obey the Law to be made upright.

Romans 2:25-29

Circumcision will help you only if you observe the Law; but if you are a lawbreaker, you might as well be uncircumcised.

Romans 3:22

It is God's way of uprightness and comes through having faith in Jesus Christ, and it is for all who have faith, without distinction.

Romans 3:29-30

Does God belong to the Jews alone? Does he not belong to the heathen too? Of course he belongs to the heathen too;

Romans 10:12-13

There is no distinction between Jew and Greek for they all have the same Lord, and he is generous to all who call upon him.

1 Corinthians 12:13

For we have all??ews or Greeks, slaves or free men??een baptized in one spirit to form one body, and we have all been saturated with one Spirit.

2 Corinthians 7:1

So since we have promises like these, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves of everything that can defile body or spirit, and by reverence for God make our consecration complete.

Galatians 3:28

There is no room for "Jew" and "Greek"; there is no room for "slave" and "freeman"; there is no room for "male" and "female"; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.

Ephesians 1:6

so that we might praise the splendid blessing which he has given us through his beloved Son.

Ephesians 2:13-18

But now through your union with Christ Jesus you who were once far away have through the blood of Christ been brought near.

Ephesians 3:6-8

that through union with Christ Jesus the heathen are fellow-heirs with the Jews, belong to the same body and share the promise with them, through the good news

Ephesians 5:21

and subordinate yourselves to one another out of reverence to Christ.

Philippians 3:3

We are the true circumcision, who worship God by his Spirit, priding ourselves only on Christ Jesus, and not relying on physical advantages,

Colossians 1:6

came among you, to thrive and bear its fruit among you, as it does all over the world, from the time when you first heard about the mercy of God,

Colossians 3:11

Here, what matters is not "Greek" and "Jew," the circumcised and the uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, freeborn, but Christ is everything and in us all.

Hebrews 11:4-6

Faith made Abel's sacrifice greater in the sight of God than Cain's; through faith he gained God's approval as an upright man, for God himself approved his offering, and through faith even when he was dead he still spoke.

1 John 2:29

If you know that he is upright, you may be sure that everyone who acts uprightly is his child.