Acts 2:3

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Then they saw what looked like fiery tongues moving in all directions, and a tongue came and settled on each person there.

Cross References

Genesis 11:6

he said: These people are working together because they all speak the same language. This is just the beginning. Soon they will be able to do anything they want.

Psalm 55:9

Confuse my enemies, Lord! Upset their plans. Cruelty and violence are all I see in the city,

Isaiah 6:5

Then I cried out, “I'm doomed! Everything I say is sinful, and so are the words of everyone around me. Yet I have seen the King, the LORD All-Powerful.”

Jeremiah 23:29

My words are a powerful fire; they are a hammer that shatters rocks.

Matthew 3:11

I baptize you with water so that you will give up your sins. But someone more powerful is going to come, and I am not good enough even to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

Matthew 3:15

Jesus answered, “For now this is how it should be, because we must do all that God wants us to do.” Then John agreed.

Luke 24:32

They said to each other, “When he talked with us along the road and explained the Scriptures to us, didn't it warm our hearts?”

Acts 1:15

One day there were about a hundred and twenty of the Lord's followers meeting together, and Peter stood up to speak to them.

Acts 2:11

Crete, and Arabia. Some of us were born Jews, and others of us have chosen to be Jews. Yet we all hear them using our own languages to tell the wonderful things God has done.

Acts 2:2

Suddenly there was a noise from heaven like the sound of a mighty wind! It filled the house where they were meeting.

Acts 2:4

The Holy Spirit took control of everyone, and they began speaking whatever languages the Spirit let them speak.

1 Corinthians 12:10

or the power to perform mighty miracles. Some of us are prophets, and some of us recognize when God's Spirit is present. Others can speak different kinds of languages, and still others can tell what these languages mean.

James 3:6

The tongue is like a spark. It is an evil power that dirties the rest of the body and sets a person's entire life on fire with flames that come from hell itself.

Revelation 11:3

My two witnesses will wear sackcloth, while I let them preach for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

Revelation 14:6

I saw another angel. This one was flying across the sky and had the eternal good news to announce to the people of every race, tribe, language, and nation on earth.