Acts 13:47

New American Bible - revised edition

For so the Lord has commanded us, ‘I have made you a light to the Gentiles, that you may be an instrument of salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

Cross References

Isaiah 42:1

Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one with whom I am pleased. Upon him I have put my spirit; he shall bring forth justice to the nations.

Isaiah 42:6

I, the Lord, have called you for justice, I have grasped you by the hand; I formed you, and set you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations,

Isaiah 45:22

Turn to me and be safe, all you ends of the earth, for I am God; there is no other!

Isaiah 49:6

It is too little, he says, for you to be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and restore the survivors of Israel; I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.

Isaiah 52:10

The Lord has bared his holy arm in the sight of all the nations; All the ends of the earth can see the salvation of our God.

Isaiah 60:3

Nations shall walk by your light, kings by the radiance of your dawning.

Jeremiah 16:19

Lord, my strength, my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress! To you nations will come from the ends of the earth, and say, “Our ancestors inherited mere frauds, empty, worthless.”

Amos 9:12

That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all nations claimed in my name— oracle of the Lord, the one who does this.

Micah 5:7

And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, Like a lion among beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep; When it passes through it tramples; it tears and no one can rescue.

Zechariah 2:11

Up, Zion! Escape, you who dwell in daughter Babylon!

Malachi 1:11

From the rising of the sun to its setting, my name is great among the nations; Incense offerings are made to my name everywhere, and a pure offering; For my name is great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 28:19

Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit,

Mark 16:15

He said to them, “Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature.

Luke 2:32

a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and glory for your people Israel.”

Luke 24:47

and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

Acts 1:8

But you will receive power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Acts 22:21

Then he said to me, ‘Go, I shall send you far away to the Gentiles.’” Paul Imprisoned.

Acts 26:23

that the Messiah must suffer and that, as the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.” Reactions to Paul’s Speech.

Acts 9:15

But the Lord said to him, “Go, for this man is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before Gentiles, kings, and Israelites,