Acts 10:34
Then Peter started speaking:“I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism in dealing with people,
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- 2 Chr 19:7 : 7 Respect the LORD and make careful decisions, for the LORD our God disapproves of injustice, partiality, and bribery.”
- Deut 10:17 : 17 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God who is unbiased and takes no bribe,
- Rom 2:11 : 11 For there is no partiality with God.
- Col 3:25 : 25 For the one who does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there are no exceptions.
- Jas 2:9 : 9 But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.
- 1 Pet 1:17 : 17 And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one’s work, live out the time of your temporary residence here in reverence.
- Gal 2:6 : 6 But from those who were influential(whatever they were makes no difference to me; God shows no favoritism between people)– those influential leaders added nothing to my message.
- Eph 6:9 : 9 Masters, treat your slaves the same way, giving up the use of threats, because you know that both you and they have the same master in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.
- Job 34:19 : 19 who shows no partiality to princes, and does not take note of the rich more than the poor, because all of them are the work of his hands?
- Ps 82:1-2 : 1 A psalm of Asaph. God stands in the assembly of El; in the midst of the gods he renders judgment. 2 He says,“How long will you make unjust legal decisions and show favoritism to the wicked?(Selah)
- Deut 16:19 : 19 You must not pervert justice or show favor. Do not take a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and distort the words of the righteous.
- Matt 22:16 : 16 They sent to him their disciples along with the Herodians, saying,“Teacher, we know that you are truthful, and teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You do not court anyone’s favor because you show no partiality.
- Luke 20:21 : 21 Thus they asked him,“Teacher, we know that you speak and teach correctly, and show no partiality, but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.
- Eph 6:19-20 : 19 Pray for me also, that I may be given the right words when I begin to speak– that I may confidently make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may be able to speak boldly as I ought to speak.
- Col 3:11 : 11 Here there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all and in all.
- Jas 2:4 : 4 If so, have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil motives?
- Matt 5:2 : 2 Then he began to teach them by saying:
- Acts 8:35 : 35 So Philip started speaking, and beginning with this scripture proclaimed the good news about Jesus to him.
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31 and said,‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your acts of charity have been remembered before God.
32 Therefore send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter. This man is staying as a guest in the house of Simon the tanner, by the sea.’
33 Therefore I sent for you at once, and you were kind enough to come. So now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to say to us.”
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45 The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were greatly astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles,
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7 After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them,“Brothers, you know that some time ago God chose me to preach to the Gentiles so they would hear the message of the gospel and believe.
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21 So Peter went down to the men and said,“Here I am, the person you’re looking for. Why have you come?”
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26 But Peter helped him up, saying,“Stand up. I too am a mere mortal.”
27 Peter continued talking with him as he went in, and he found many people gathered together.
28 He said to them,“You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile, yet God has shown me that I should call no person defiled or ritually unclean.
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13 Then a voice said to him,“Get up, Peter; slaughter and eat!”
14 But Peter said,“Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!”
15 The voice spoke to him again, a second time,“What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!”
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4 Staring at him and becoming greatly afraid, Cornelius replied,“What is it, Lord?” The angel said to him,“Your prayers and your acts of charity have gone up as a memorial before God.
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4 But Peter began and explained it to them point by point, saying,
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8 But I said,‘Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’
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21 To show partiality is terrible, for a person will transgress over the smallest piece of bread.
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6 But from those who were influential(whatever they were makes no difference to me; God shows no favoritism between people)– those influential leaders added nothing to my message.
7 On the contrary, when they saw that I was entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised just as Peter was entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised
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19 While Peter was still thinking seriously about the vision, the Spirit said to him,“Look! Three men are looking for you.
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29 Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes, of the Gentiles too!
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9 But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.
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37 The Response to Peter’s Address Now when they heard this, they were acutely distressed and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles,“What should we do, brothers?”
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10 He would certainly rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality!
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14 But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all,“If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
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14 Simeon has explained how God first concerned himself to select from among the Gentiles a people for his name.
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24 The following day he entered Caesarea. Now Cornelius was waiting anxiously for them and had called together his relatives and close friends.
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19 who shows no partiality to princes, and does not take note of the rich more than the poor, because all of them are the work of his hands?
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1 Peter Visits Cornelius Now there was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort.