Acts 2:17

Good News Translation

‘This is what I will do in the last days, God says: I will pour out my Spirit on everyone. Your sons and daughters will proclaim my message; your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams.

Cross References

Genesis 49:1

Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather around, and I will tell you what will happen to you in the future:

Genesis 6:12

God looked at the world and saw that it was evil, for the people were all living evil lives.

Psalm 65:2

because you answer prayers. People everywhere will come to you

Psalm 72:6

May the king be like rain on the fields, like showers falling on the land.

Proverbs 1:23

Listen when I reprimand you; I will give you good advice and share my knowledge with you.

Isaiah 2:2

In days to come the mountain where the Temple stands will be the highest one of all, towering above all the hills. Many nations will come streaming to it,

Isaiah 40:5

Then the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all people will see it. The Lord himself has promised this.”

Isaiah 44:3

“I will give water to the thirsty land and make streams flow on the dry ground. I will pour out my spirit on your children and my blessing on your descendants.

Isaiah 49:26

I will make your oppressors kill each other; they will be drunk with murder and rage. Then all people will know that I am the Lord, the one who saves you and sets you free. They will know that I am Israel's powerful God.”

Isaiah 66:23

On every New Moon Festival and every Sabbath people of every nation will come to worship me here in Jerusalem,” says the Lord.

Ezekiel 11:19

I will give them a new heart and a new mind. I will take away their stubborn heart of stone and will give them an obedient heart.

Ezekiel 39:29

I will pour out my spirit on the people of Israel and never again turn away from them. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken.”

Daniel 10:14

I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the future. This is a vision about the future.”

Hosea 3:5

But the time will come when the people of Israel will once again turn to the Lord their God and to a descendant of David their king. Then they will fear the Lord and will receive his good gifts.

Micah 4:1

In days to come the mountain where the Temple stands will be the highest one of all, towering above all the hills. Many nations will come streaming to it,

Zechariah 12:10

“I will fill the descendants of David and the other people of Jerusalem with the spirit of mercy and the spirit of prayer. They will look at the one whom they stabbed to death, and they will mourn for him like those who mourn for an only child. They will mourn bitterly, like those who have lost their first-born son.

Zechariah 2:13

Be silent, everyone, in the presence of the Lord, for he is coming from his holy dwelling place.

Luke 3:6

The whole human race will see God's salvation!’”

John 17:2

For you gave him authority over all people, so that he might give eternal life to all those you gave him.

John 7:39

Jesus said this about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were going to receive. At that time the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not been raised to glory.

Acts 10:45

The Jewish believers who had come from Joppa with Peter were amazed that God had poured out his gift of the Holy Spirit on the Gentiles also.

Acts 11:27

About that time some prophets went from Jerusalem to Antioch.

Acts 11:28

One of them, named Agabus, stood up and by the power of the Spirit predicted that a severe famine was about to come over all the earth. (It came when Claudius was emperor.)

Acts 2:16

Instead, this is what the prophet Joel spoke about:

Acts 2:18

Yes, even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will proclaim my message.

Acts 2:33

He has been raised to the right side of God, his Father, and has received from him the Holy Spirit, as he had promised. What you now see and hear is his gift that he has poured out on us.

Acts 21:9

He had four unmarried daughters who proclaimed God's message.

Romans 5:5

This hope does not disappoint us, for God has poured out his love into our hearts by means of the Holy Spirit, who is God's gift to us.

1 Corinthians 12:10

The Spirit gives one person the power to work miracles; to another, the gift of speaking God's message; and to yet another, the ability to tell the difference between gifts that come from the Spirit and those that do not. To one person he gives the ability to speak in strange tongues, and to another he gives the ability to explain what is said.

1 Corinthians 12:28

In the church God has put all in place: in the first place apostles, in the second place prophets, and in the third place teachers; then those who perform miracles, followed by those who are given the power to heal or to help others or to direct them or to speak in strange tongues.

Hebrews 1:2

but in these last days he has spoken to us through his Son. He is the one through whom God created the universe, the one whom God has chosen to possess all things at the end.

James 5:3

Your gold and silver are covered with rust, and this rust will be a witness against you and will eat up your flesh like fire. You have piled up riches in these last days.

2 Peter 3:3

First of all, you must understand that in the last days some people will appear whose lives are controlled by their own lusts. They will make fun of you