Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name.
Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us, and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.
that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel.”
the people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. “For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall make a name for the Lord, an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”
For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high
“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people
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