The Heathen
74 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
36 sections
- Aid Missions To
- Baptism to be Administered To
- Cautions Against Imitating
- Conversion of, Acceptable to God
- Cruel
- Danger of Intercourse With
- Degradation of
- Employed to Chastise the Church
- Evil of Imitating
- Filthy
- Given to Christ
- God: Brings to Nought the Counsels of
- God: Punishes
- God: Rules Over
- God: Will be Exalted Among
- God: Will Finally Judge
- Have: Evidence of the Goodness of God
- Have: Evidence of the Power of God
- Have: The Testimony of Conscience
- Having No Hope
- Idolatrous
- Ignorant
- Necessity for Preaching To
- Persecuting
- Praise God for Success of the Gospel Among
- Pray For
- Salvation of, Foretold
- Salvation Provided For
- Scoffing at Saints
- Strangers to the Covenant of Promise
- The Church Shall be Avenged of
- The Glory of God to be Declared Among
- The Gospel Received By
- The Gospel to be Preached To
- The Holy Spirit Poured out Upon
- Worshippers of the Devil
Aid Missions To
- 2 Corinthians 11:9 And when I was with you and in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. I have refrained from being a burden to you in any way, and I will continue to do so.
- 3 John 6–7 They have testified to the church about your love. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God. …
Baptism to be Administered To
- Matthew 28:19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Cautions Against Imitating
- Jeremiah 10:2 This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them.
- Matthew 6:7 And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard.
Conversion of, Acceptable to God
- Acts 10:35 but welcomes those from every nation who fear Him and do what is right.
- Romans 15:16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Cruel
- Psalm 74:20 Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
- Romans 1:31 They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.
Danger of Intercourse With
- Psalm 106:35 but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
Degradation of
- Leviticus 25:44 Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.
Employed to Chastise the Church
- Leviticus 26:33 But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
- Jeremiah 49:14 I have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent to the nations: “Assemble yourselves to march against her! Rise up for battle!”
- Lamentations 1:3 Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
- Ezekiel 7:24 So I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned.
- Ezekiel 25:7 therefore I will indeed stretch out My hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the LORD.’
- Daniel 4:27 Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”
- Habakkuk 1:5–9 “Look at the nations and observe— be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you. …
Evil of Imitating
- 2 Kings 16:3 Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
- Ezekiel 11:12 Then you will know that I am the LORD. For you have neither followed My statutes nor practiced My ordinances, but you have conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.”
Filthy
- 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.
- Ephesians 4:19 Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.
- Ephesians 5:12 For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.
Given to Christ
- Psalm 2:8 Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
- Daniel 7:14 And He was given dominion, glory, and kingship, that the people of every nation and language should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.
God: Brings to Nought the Counsels of
- Psalm 33:10 The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.
God: Punishes
- Psalm 44:2 With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
- Joel 3:11–13 Come quickly, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves. Bring down Your mighty ones, O LORD. …
- Micah 5:15 I will take vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations that have not obeyed Me.”
- Habakkuk 3:12 You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.
- Zechariah 14:18 And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
God: Rules Over
- 2 Chronicles 20:6 and said, “O LORD, God of our fathers, are You not the God who is in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your hand, and no one can stand against You.
- Psalm 47:8 God reigns over the nations; God is seated on His holy throne.
God: Will be Exalted Among
- Psalm 46:10 “Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”
- Psalm 102:15 So the nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth will fear Your glory.
God: Will Finally Judge
- Romans 2:12–16 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. …
Have: Evidence of the Goodness of God
- Acts 14:17 Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
Have: Evidence of the Power of God
- Romans 1:19–20 For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. …
- Acts 17:27 God intended that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.
Have: The Testimony of Conscience
- Romans 2:14–15 Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. …
Having No Hope
- Ephesians 2:12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
Idolatrous
- Psalm 135:15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
- Romans 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
- Romans 1:25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.
Ignorant
- 1 Corinthians 1:21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
- Ephesians 4:18 They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
Necessity for Preaching To
- Romans 10:14 How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach?
Persecuting
- Psalm 2:1–2 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? …
- 2 Corinthians 11:26 In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,
Praise God for Success of the Gospel Among
- Psalm 98:1–3 Sing to the LORD a new song, for He has done wonders; His right hand and holy arm have gained Him the victory. …
- Acts 11:18 When they heard this, they had no further objections, and they glorified God, saying, “So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.”
Pray For
- Psalm 67:2–5 that Your ways may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations. …
Salvation of, Foretold
- Genesis 12:3 I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
- Galatians 3:8 The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”
- Isaiah 2:2–4 In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it. …
- Isaiah 52:10 The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
- Isaiah 60:1–8 Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you. …
Salvation Provided For
- Acts 28:28 Be advised, therefore, that God’s salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!”
- Romans 15:9–12 so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: “Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles; I will sing hymns to Your name.” …
Scoffing at Saints
- Psalm 79:10 Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.
Strangers to the Covenant of Promise
- Ephesians 2:12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
The Church Shall be Avenged of
- Psalm 149:7 to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,
- Jeremiah 10:25 Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.
- Obadiah 15 For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.
The Glory of God to be Declared Among
- 1 Chronicles 16:24 Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples.
- Psalm 96:3 Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples.
The Gospel Received By
- Acts 11:1 The apostles and brothers throughout Judea soon heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
- Acts 13:48 When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.
- Acts 15:3 Sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, recounting the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy to all the brothers.
- Acts 15:23 and sent them with this letter: The apostles and the elders, your brothers, To the brothers among the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings.
The Gospel to be Preached To
- Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
- Matthew 28:19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
- Romans 16:26 but now revealed and made known through the writings of the prophets by the command of the eternal God, in order to lead all nations to the obedience that comes from faith —
- Galatians 1:16 to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,
The Holy Spirit Poured out Upon
- Acts 10:44–45 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard his message. …
- Acts 15:8 And God, who knows the heart, showed His approval by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us.
Worshippers of the Devil
- 1 Corinthians 10:20 No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.