GENTILES

- Comprehend all nations except the Jews Ro 2:9; 3:9; 9:24 - CALLED . Heathen Ps 2:1; Ga 3:8 . Nations Ps 9:20; 22:28; Isa 9:1 . Uncircumcised Isa 14:6; 52:1 . Uncircumcision Ro 2:26 . Greeks Ro 1:16; 10:12 . Strangers Isa 14:1; 60:10 - Ruled by God 2Ch 20:6; Ps 47:8 - Chastised by God Ps 9:5; 94:10 - Counsel of, brought to nought Ps 33:10 - CHARACTERISED AS . Ignorant of God Ro 1:21; 1Th 4:5 . Refusing to know God Ro 1:28 . Without the law Ro 2:14 . Idolatrous Ro 1:23,25; 1Co 12:2 . Superstitious De 18:14 . Depraved and wicked Ro 1:28-32; Eph 4:19 . Blasphemous and reproachful Ne 5:9 . Constant to their false gods Jer 2:11 - Hated and despised the Jews Es 9:1,5; Ps 44:13,14; 123:3 - Often ravaged and defiled the holy land and sanctuary Ps 79:1; La 1:10 - THE JEWS . Not to follow the ways of Le 18:3; Jer 10:2 . Not to intermarry with De 7:3 . Permitted to have, as servants Le 25:44 . Despised, as if dogs Mt 15:26 . Never associated with Ac 10:28; 11:2,3 . Often corrupted by 2Ki 17:7,8 . Dispersed amongst Joh 7:35 - Excluded from Israel's privileges Eph 2:11,12 - Not allowed to enter the temple Ac 21:28,29 - Outer court of temple for Eph 2:14; Re 11:2 - Given to Christ as His inheritance Ps 2:8 - Christ given as a light to Isa 42:6; Lu 2:32 - Conversion of, predicted Isa 2:2; 11:10 - United with the Jews against Christ Ac 4:27 - The gospel not to be preached to, till preached to the Jews Mt 10:5; Lu 24:47; Ac 13:46 - First special introduction of the gospel to Ac 10:34-45; 15:14 - First general introduction of the gospel to Ac 13:48,49,52; 15:12 - Paul the apostle of Ac 9:15; Ga 2:7,8 - Jerusalem trodden down by, Lu 21:24 - Israel rejected till the fulness of Ro 11:25

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A name given by the Hebrews to all those that had not received the Law of Moses. Foreigners who embraced Judaism, they called proselytes. Since the promulgation of the gospel, the true religion has been extended to all nations; God, who had promised by his prophets to call the Gentiles to the faith, with a superabundance of grace, having fulfilled his promise; so that the Christian church is composed principally of Gentile converts, the Jews being too proud of their privileges to acknowledge Jesus Christ as their Messiah and Redeemer. In the writings of Paul, the Gentiles are generally called Greeks, Ro 1:14,16 1Co 1:22,24 Ga 3:28. So also in those of Luke, in the Ac 6:1 11:20 18:4. Paul is commonly called the apostle of the Gentiles, Ga 2:8 1Ti 2:7, because he preached Christ principally to them; whereas Peter, etc., preached generally to the Jews, and are called apostles of the circumcision, Ga 2:8.

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Gentiles. Gentiles
(Heb., usually in plural, goyim), meaning in general all nations except the Jews. In course of time, as the Jews began more and more to pride themselves on their peculiar privileges, it acquired unpleasant associations, and was used as a term of contempt.

In the New Testament the Greek word Hellenes, meaning literally Greek (as in Acts 16:1, 3; 18:17; Rom. 1:14), generally denotes any non-Jewish nation.

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GENTILES. → UNCLASSIFIED SCIPTURES RELATING TO Jer 10:2,3; Mt 6:7,8,31,32; Ac 14:16; 17:4,16,17,22-27; Ro 1:18-32; 2:1-15; 1Co 10:20; 12:2; Ga 2:15; Eph 2:12; 4:17-19; 5:12; 1Th 4:4; 1Pe 4:3,4
* See IDOLATRY
* See MISSIONS

→ PROPHECIES OF THE CONVERSION OF Ge 12:3,5; 22:18; 49:10; De 32:21; Ps 2:8; 22:27-31; 46:4,10; 65:2,5; 66:4; 68:31,32; 72:1-20; 86:9; 102:15,18-22; 145:10,11; Isa 2:2-5; 9:1-7; 11:1-10; 18:7; 24:16; 35:1-10; 40:4-11; 42:1-12; 45:6,8,22-24; 49:1,5,6,18-23; 54:1-3; 55:5; 56:3,6-8; 60:1,3-5,8-14; 65:1; 66:7-23; Jer 3:17; 4:2; 16:19-21; Eze 47:3-5; Da 2:35,44,45; 7:13,14; Ho 2:23; Joe 2:28-32; Am 9:11,12; Mic 4:3,4; Hag 2:7; Zec 2:10,11; 6:15; 8:1-23; 9:1,9-17; 14:8-21; Mal 1:11; Mt 3:9; 8:11; 12:17-21; 19:30; Mr 10:31; Lu 13:29,30; 21:24; Joh 10:16; Ac 9:15
* See CHURCH, PROPHECIES CONCERNING PROSPERITY OF

→ CONVERSION OF Ac 10:45; 11:1-18; 13:2,46-48; 14:27; 15:7-9,12-31; 18:4-6; 26:16-18; 28:28; Ro 1:5-7; 9:22-30; 10:19,20; 11:11-13,17-21; 15:9-12; Ga 1:15,16; 2:2; 3:14; Eph 3:1-8; Col 3:11; 1Th 2:16; 1Ti 3:16; 2Ti 1:11; Re 11:15; 15:4
* See MISSIONS
* See CHURCH, PROPHECIES CONCERNING PROSPERITY OF
* See JESUS, KINGDOM OF, PROPHECIES CONCERNING