Acts 10:35

Good News For Gentiles

³⁴ Then Peter opened his mouth and said, "Now I really see that God shows no partiality, ³⁵ but in every nation the man who reveres God and practices doing right is acceptable to Him. ³⁶ He has sent His message to the descendants of Israel, by telling them the good news of peace through Jesus Christ. He is Lord of all.

Works Righteousness

Does What Is Right

Acts 10:2

a religious man, too, who revered God with all his household, who was always liberal in his many deeds of charity to the people, and who had the habit of praying to God.

Acts 15:9

and in this way He put no difference between us and them, because He cleansed their hearts by faith.

Luke 1:28

So the angel came to her home and said, "Congratulations, you highly favored woman! The Lord be with you!"

Acts 9:31

So the church all over Judea, Galilee, and Samaria enjoyed peace, and as it continued to be built up spiritually and to live in reverence for the Lord, it continued to increase in numbers through the encouragement that the Holy Spirit gave.

Romans 2:13

For merely hearing the law read does not make men upright with God, but men who practice the law will be recognized as upright.

Romans 2:25-29

Now circumcision benefits you only if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision is no better than uncircumcision.

Romans 3:22

God's own way of giving men right standing with Himself is through faith in Jesus Christ. It is for everybody who has faith, for no distinction at all is made.

Romans 3:29-30

Or is He the God of Jews alone? Is He not the God of heathen peoples too? Of course, He is the God of heathen peoples too,

Romans 10:12-13

But there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is over them all, because He is infinitely kind to all who call upon Him.

1 Corinthians 12:13

For by one Spirit all of us, Jews or Greeks, slaves or freemen, have been baptized into one body, and were all imbued with one Spirit.

2 Corinthians 7:1

So, since we have such promises as these, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles our bodies and spirits, and in reverence to God carry on our consecration to completeness.

Galatians 3:28

There is no room for Jew or Greek, no room for slave or freeman, no room for male or female, for you are all one through union with Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 1:6

so that we might praise the splendid favor which He has shown us in 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 the heathen through union with Christ Jesus are fellow-heirs with the Jews, are members with them of the same body, and sharers with them of the promise through the good news,

Ephesians 5:21

keep on living in subordination to one another out of reverence to Christ.

Philippians 3:3

For we are the true circumcision, who by the Spirit of God worship Him, who take pride in Christ Jesus only, and do not rely on outward privileges,

Colossians 1:6

which reached you, and since it is bearing fruit and growing among you, just as it is all over the world, from the day you first heard of God's favor and in reality came to know it,

Colossians 1:23-27

if indeed you continue well grounded and firm in faith and never shift from the hope inspired by the good news you heard, which has been preached all over the world, and of which I, Paul, have been made a minister.

Colossians 3:11

In this new relation there is no Greek and Jew, no circumcised and uncircumcised, no barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is everything and in us all.

Hebrews 11:4-6

By faith Abel offered a sacrifice more acceptable to God than Cain did, for by it he was approved as an upright man, since God approved him for the offering he made; and by it he still continues to speak, though dead.

1 John 2:29

If you know that He is upright, you must know that everyone who practices uprightness is born of Him.