when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when trouble and stress overcome you.

Then they will call me, but I won't answer; they will search for me, but won't find me.

since it is righteous for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

Look, every life belongs to Me. The life of the father is like the life of the son-- both belong to Me. The person who sins is the one who will die.

What will it benefit a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is God's power for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.

Or is God for Jews only? Is He not also for Gentiles? Yes, for Gentiles too,

since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

Is this blessing only for the circumcised, then? Or is it also for the uncircumcised? For we say, Faith was credited to Abraham for righteousness.

And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while still uncircumcised. This was to make him the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, so that righteousness may be credited to them also.

on us whom He also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since the same Lord of all is rich to all who call on Him.

Now I say that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of the truth of God, to confirm the promises to the fathers,

and so that Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles, and I will sing psalms to Your name.

I have known only you out of all the clans of the earth; therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities.

Then He proceeded to denounce the towns where most of His miracles were done, because they did not repent:

But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.

But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you."

For my eyes have seen Your salvation.

a light for revelation to the Gentiles and glory to Your people Israel.

And that slave who knew his master's will and didn't prepare himself or do it will be severely beaten.

But the one who did not know and did things deserving of blows will be beaten lightly. Much will be required of everyone who has been given much. And even more will be expected of the one who has been entrusted with more.

and repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

God raised up His Servant and sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways."

When they heard this they became silent. Then they glorified God, saying, "So God has granted repentance resulting in life to even the Gentiles!"

"Brothers, sons of Abraham's race, and those among you who fear God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.

Then Paul and Barnabas boldly said: "It was necessary that God's message be spoken to you first. But since you reject it, and consider yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles!

For this is what the Lord has commanded us: I have appointed you as a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth."

When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with preaching the message and solemnly testified to the Jews that the Messiah is Jesus.

But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook out his clothes and told them, "Your blood is on your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

I testified to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.

Instead, I preached to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.

After three days he called together the leaders of the Jews. And when they had gathered he said to them: "Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our forefathers, I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans

Therefore, let it be known to you that this saving work of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen!"

We are Jews by birth and not "Gentile sinners";

yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ. And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will be justified.

There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

So then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh-- called "the uncircumcised" by those called "the circumcised," done by hand in the flesh.

But now in Christ Jesus, you who were far away have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.

He did away with the law of the commandments in regulations, so that He might create in Himself one new man from the two, resulting in peace.

When [Christ] came, He proclaimed the good news of peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.

Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with God's household; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?