Acts 10:34

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then Peter said, Truly, I see clearly that God is no respecter of persons:

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  • 2 Chr 19:7 : 7 So now let the fear of the Lord be in you; do your work with care; for in the Lord our God there is no evil, or respect for high position, or taking of payment to do wrong.
  • Deut 10:17 : 17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards:
  • Rom 2:11 : 11 For one man is not different from another before God.
  • Col 3:25 : 25 For the wrongdoer will have punishment for the wrong he has done, without respect for any man's position.
  • Jas 2:9 : 9 But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.
  • 1 Pet 1:17 : 17 And if you give the name of Father to him who, judging every man by his acts, has no respect for a man's position, then go in fear while you are on this earth:
  • Gal 2:6 : 6 But from those who seemed to be important (whatever they were has no weight with me: God does not take man's person into account): those who seemed to be important gave nothing new to me;
  • Eph 6:9 : 9 And, you masters, do the same things to them, not making use of violent words: in the knowledge that their Master and yours is in heaven, and he has no respect for a man's position.
  • Job 34:19 : 19 Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.
  • Ps 82:1-2 : 1 <A Psalm. Of Asaph.> God is in the meeting-place of God; he is judging among the gods. 2 How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)
  • Deut 16:19 : 19 You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.
  • Matt 22:16 : 16 And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we see that you are true, and that you are teaching the true way of God, and have no fear of anyone, because you have no respect for a man's position.
  • Luke 20:21 : 21 And they put a question to him, saying, Master, we are certain that your teaching and your words are right, and that you have no respect for a man's position, but you are teaching the true way of God:
  • Eph 6:19-20 : 19 And for me, that words may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make clear without fear the secret of the good news, 20 For which I am a representative in chains, and that I may say without fear the things which it is right for me to say.
  • Col 3:11 : 11 Where there is no Greek or Jew, no one with circumcision or without circumcision, no division between nations, no servant or free man: but Christ is all and in all.
  • Jas 2:4 : 4 Is there not a division in your minds? have you not become judges with evil thoughts?
  • Matt 5:2 : 2 And with these words he gave them teaching, saying,
  • Acts 8:35 : 35 So Philip, starting from this writing, gave him the good news about Jesus.

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    10 But glory and honour and peace to all whose works are good, to the Jew first and then to the Greek:

    11 For one man is not different from another before God.

  • Acts 10:35
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    35 But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.

  • Acts 10:30-33
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    30 And Cornelius said, Four days from now I was in my house in prayer at the ninth hour; and I saw before me a man in shining clothing,

    31 Who said, Cornelius, your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your offerings are kept in his memory.

    32 Send, then, to Joppa, and get Simon, named Peter, to come to you; he is living in the house of Simon, a leather-worker, by the sea.

    33 So, straight away, I sent for you; and you have done well to come. And now, we are all present before God, ready to give attention to all the things which the Lord has given you to say.

  • Acts 10:44-47
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    44 While Peter was saying these words, the Holy Spirit came on all those who were hearing the word.

    45 And the Jews of the faith, who had come with Peter, were full of wonder, because the Holy Spirit was given to the Gentiles,

    46 And they were talking in tongues, and giving glory to God. Then Peter said,

    47 Will any man say that these may not have baptism who have been given the Holy Spirit as we have?

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    7 And when there had been much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, My brothers, you have knowledge that some time back it was God's pleasure that by my mouth the good news might be given to the Gentiles so that they might have faith.

    8 And God, the searcher of hearts, was a witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit even as he did to us;

    9 Making no division between them and us, but making clean their hearts by faith.

  • Acts 10:21-22
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    21 And Peter went down to the men, and said, I am the man you are looking for: why have you come?

    22 And they said, Cornelius, a captain, an upright and God-fearing man, respected by all the nation of the Jews, had word from God by an angel to send for you to his house, and to give hearing to your words.

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    26 But Peter, lifting him up, said, Get up, for I am a man as you are.

    27 And saying these words, he went in, and saw that a great number of people had come together;

    28 And he said to them, You yourselves have knowledge that it is against the law for a man who is a Jew to be in the company of one who is of another nation; but God has made it clear to me that no man may be named common or unclean:

  • Acts 10:13-15
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    13 And a voice came to him, saying, Come, Peter; take them for food.

    14 But Peter said, No, Lord; for I have never taken food which is common or unclean.

    15 And the voice came to him a second time, What God has made clean, do not you make common.

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    8 Then Peter, being full of the Holy Spirit, said to them, O you rulers of the people and men of authority,

  • Acts 10:3-5
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    3 He saw in a vision, clearly, at about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of the Lord coming to him and saying to him, Cornelius!

    4 And he, looking on him in fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your offerings have come up to God, and he has kept them in mind.

    5 Now send men to Joppa, and get one Simon, named Peter,

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    4 But Peter gave them an account of it all in order, saying to them,

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    17 And if you give the name of Father to him who, judging every man by his acts, has no respect for a man's position, then go in fear while you are on this earth:

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    8 But I said, No, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever come into my mouth.

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    19 But Peter and John in answer said to them, It is for you to say if it is right in the eyes of God to give attention to you more than to God:

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    17 Now while Peter was in doubt as to the purpose of this vision, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made search for Simon's house, came to the door,

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    12 And the Spirit gave me orders to go with them, doubting nothing. And these six brothers came with me; and we went into that man's house:

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    14 But Peter, getting up, with the eleven, said in a loud voice, O men of Judaea, and all you who are living in Jerusalem, take note of this and give ear to my words.

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    25 For the wrongdoer will have punishment for the wrong he has done, without respect for any man's position.

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    21 It is not good to have respect for a man's position: for a man will do wrong for a bit of bread.

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    6 But from those who seemed to be important (whatever they were has no weight with me: God does not take man's person into account): those who seemed to be important gave nothing new to me;

    7 But, quite the opposite, when they saw that I had been made responsible for preaching the good news to those without circumcision, even as Peter had been for those of the circumcision

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    19 And, while Peter was turning the vision over in his mind, the Spirit said to him, See, three men are looking for you.

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    29 Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles:

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    9 But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.

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    37 Now when these words came to their ears their hearts were troubled, and they said to Peter and the other Apostles, Brothers, what are we to do?

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    10 He will certainly put you right, if you have respect for persons in secret.

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    11 And when Peter came to his senses he said, Now, truly, I am certain that the Lord has sent his angel and taken me out of the hands of Herod, against all the hopes of the Jews.

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    14 But when I saw that they were not living uprightly in agreement with the true words of the good news, I said to Cephas before them all, If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, how will you make the Gentiles do the same as the Jews?

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    14 Symeon has given an account of how God was first pleased to take from among the Gentiles a people for himself.

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    24 And the day after that, they came to Caesarea. And Cornelius was waiting for them, having got together his relations and his near friends.

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    19 Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.

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    1 Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, named Cornelius, the captain of the Italian band of the army;