7 Bible Verses about First Among The Gentiles

These were the Twelve whom Jesus sent out after he had given them these instructions: "Don't turn on to the road that leads to the unbelievers, and don't enter Samaritan towns.

Continue to live such upright lives among the gentiles that, when they slander you as practicers of evil, they may see your good actions and glorify God when he visits them.

Simeon has explained how God first showed his concern for the gentiles by taking from among them a people for his name.

When he found him, he brought him to Antioch, and for a whole year they were guests of the church and taught many people. It was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.

When they came to him, he told them, "You know how I lived among you the entire time from the first day I set foot in Asia.

Greet also the church in their house. Greet my dear friend Epaenetus, who was the first convert to the Messiah in Asia.

For it is not as though we were overstepping our limits when we came to you. We were the first to reach you with the gospel of the Messiah.