Verse 5

For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

Referenced Verses

  • Jonah 1:2 : 2 "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me."
  • Isa 33:19 : 19 You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can't comprehend, with a strange language that you can't understand.
  • Ezek 3:6 : 6 not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.
  • Ps 81:5 : 5 He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know.
  • Isa 28:11 : 11 But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language;
  • Jonah 3:2-4 : 2 "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you." 3 So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey across. 4 Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!"
  • Acts 26:17-18 : 17 delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'