Proselytes
22 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
13 sections
- Described
- from the Ammonites and Moabites Restricted for Ever From
- from the Egyptians and Edomites Restricted to the Third
- Later Called Devout Greeks
- Many, Embraced the Gospel
- Pharisees, Zealous in Making
- Required: To be Circumcised
- Required: To Enter Into Covenant to Serve the Lord
- Required: To Give up all Heathen Associates
- Required: To Give up all Heathen Practices
- Required: To Observe the Law of Moses As Jews
- Unfaithfulness In, Punished
- Went up to the Feasts
Described
- Esther 8:17 In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear …
- Isaiah 56:3 Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”
from the Ammonites and Moabites Restricted for Ever From
- Deuteronomy 23:3 No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.
from the Egyptians and Edomites Restricted to the Third
- Deuteronomy 23:7–8 Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land. …
Later Called Devout Greeks
- John 12:20 Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.
- Acts 17:4 Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large number of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few leading women.
Many, Embraced the Gospel
- Acts 6:5 This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, as well as Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism.
- Acts 13:43 After the synagogue was dismissed, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who spoke to them and urged them to continue in the grace of God.
Pharisees, Zealous in Making
- Matthew 23:15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
Required: To be Circumcised
- Genesis 17:13 Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.
- Exodus 12:48 If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no …
Required: To Enter Into Covenant to Serve the Lord
- Deuteronomy 29:10–13 All of you are standing today before the LORD your God— you leaders of tribes, elders, officials, and all the men of Israel, …
- Nehemiah 10:28–29 “The rest of the people— the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the people of the land to obey the Law of God— along with their wives and all their sons and …
Required: To Give up all Heathen Associates
- Ruth 1:16 But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
- Ruth 2:11 Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.
- Psalm 45:10 Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,
- Luke 14:26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters — yes, even his own life — he cannot be My disciple.
Required: To Give up all Heathen Practices
- Ezra 6:21 The Israelites who had returned from exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to seek the LORD, the God of Israel.
Required: To Observe the Law of Moses As Jews
- Exodus 12:49 The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”
Unfaithfulness In, Punished
- Ezekiel 14:7 For when any Israelite or any foreigner dwelling in Israel separates himself from Me, sets up idols in his heart, and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me, I the LORD will …
Went up to the Feasts
Related topics
Proselytes were Entitled to all PrivilegesNethinim were Zealous for the Covenant
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.